These "cost accounting" transactions where schools both charge you and pay you and then net it out are kind of silly. IMO only the net should matter. If a scho

These "cost accounting" transactions where schools both charge you and pay you and then net it out are kind of silly. IMO only the net should matter. If a school "costs" $70k/year but 95% of students get a $50k/year scholarship, are the students really making $50k/year of income? Of course not. The school costs $20k/year; $70 and $50 are both pure fiction. We should be looking at who actually ends up writing the check and who ends up depositing it, not the stories they tell along the way.