I highly doubt that. In most college towns, at least until very recently, it was really not difficult to get a college-town-like part-time job that could easily pay for food and a shared room. The point is most people aren't going to do that is if the story is at the end of those 4 years you have no credentials to show for it, and I think more importantly, a primary value of college is the social experience. It would be very difficult to integrate yourself into college life if you were not an admitted student without lying.