Tuition was $50k per year. Room and board was $10k per year. So over four years that would be $240k - $30k in benefits, so $210k in student loans. For undergrad.

The school wasn’t as good as Stanford but top 20 and had a similar policy and tuition.

The numbers don’t represent any outside work. The $1500/year was like 8 hours a week doing random university jobs. It possible they could work, but it would be really hard on top of the 8 hours work study and class load.