<p>I agree that economics can play a part in this. Here are the numbers for % of students getting Financial Aid on these campuses:</p>
<p>% of students getting Fin’l Aid , School</p>
<p>71% , Case Western
69% , MIT
66% , Rensselaer
60% , Harvard
58% , Yale
58% , UC SAN DIEGO
57% , Princeton
57% , UC DAVIS
56% , U Rochester
54% , Brandeis
54% , UC S BARBARA
53% , NYU
52% , Carnegie Mellon
52% , UC IRVINE
50% , Stanford
49% , Caltech
49% , U Chicago
49% , Dartmouth
49% , UCLA
48% , Columbia
48% , Johns Hopkins
47% , Notre Dame
46% , UC BERKELEY
44% , Brown
43% , U Penn
43% , Lehigh
42% , Duke
42% , Vanderbilt
41% , Emory
40% , Northwestern
40% , Georgetown
40% , Tufts
39% , Cornell
39% , Boston College
38% , Wash U
35% , Rice
29% , Wake Forest</p>
<p>I think that the availability issue is real, especially in selected majors. And this is likely to worsen going forward as resources get tighter in the state.</p>