<p>i havn't read all 8 pages, but this is what i will say.</p>
<p>schools with huge endowments ARE picking up the tab for students. u'll find that schools with huge endowments have much better facilities, and produce much more research than schools with modest endowments. if you want to go to a big name school - which has great facilities and makes a name for itself in academia, that school has to spend money. Think of it this way, for a school similar in size to harvard, with a very modest endowment to do what harvard does, and have what havard has, they would have to charge $200,000 a year in tuition instead of just $30,000.</p>