<p>The other top ~20 will be fine. There is no reason to believe otherwise. </p>
<p>It’s is the colleges below the top 20-30 (wherever we want to draw a line), that have been discounting tuition for a long time. That ain’t gonna change. NYU, GW, Tulane and Miami (none of which meet full need), for example, have long offered huge tuition discounts (aka ‘merit schollies’) for kids with good numbers. But yet they have no problem filling the bottom xx of their class with full pays.</p>
<p>Over a generation, Cal-Berkeley & UCLA has gone from essentially free (no tuition/fees), to a COA of $35k. No fall off in applications, or willing folks to attend. Indeed, just the opposite. UCLA sets records every year for the number of apps.</p>