[@TheHangedMan]

>Students in the top 5 have a 100% discount on tuition, [b]a stipend of 5000 PHP (roughly 105 USD) every month[/b], and free use of the schools facilities...

Dude, did you miss a couple zeroes there? For someone who is in the top 5 $105 is invariably chump change. He or she can gain orders of magnitude more by, say, running an escort/safety mission for some low-ranking merchant in the third world or leasing out their time and powers for research.