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What exactly is the "original tuition program" ? They got a run of the mill student loan and are paying it back ? So you don't believe Burke is involved at all ?For the below, the "original plan" is that Quinn and Riona are on the tuition program and want out. They can do that by paying back all the money they were given.
1) To pay back the tuition money, Quinn has set up a side business, pimping out "tuition" girls and selling drugs as a low-level dealer. She gets the drugs from her source and sells at a markup to the alphas, DIKs and various students. Riona is the delivery girl and gets her small cut which pays for her personal use. Other girls on the menu also can sell drugs for a commission though some may not. Primary source for tuition payback is through the restaurant. The drugs keep the girls tied to Quinn as their supplier and they don't have to risk buying in public where they might get caught by the cops.
2) Quinn is adding new girls to the prostitution fold only. For instance, Camila may not be in the tuition program, just hooking for Quinn for the extra money. Check the scene in Quinn's room when MC is stealing panties and they are both in front of the mirror; it sounds like they are talking about the glory hole and not something more intense. Quinn wants to use the proceeds from these girls to expand her drug business and pay off her tuition obligation before she becomes president of the HOTs so she can focus her final year on making bank.
3) Tuition, as detailed above, which becomes complicated due to Quinn's mismanagement of the drug purchases. Quinn runs short one month, tells everyone that it's because Riona has been smoking for free, but Riona gets angry when she is told that since she knows she's been covering her use expenses. When Quinn gets robbed it gets worse because she has little financial cushion to fall back on so jacks up her prices to cover the shortfall. The original shortfall was due to Quinn miscalculating or trying some new drugs that cost more (e.g. the syringe) but that aren't selling or that she herself is using more of. Riona is kept in the dark and can't understand how they can be short when she's pulling her weight.
4) Cutting losses may not mean just money. It could be that they have some girls who signed on who aren't pulling their weight or are giving away sex for free (Arieth maybe?) and potentially hurting their business. They only keep the girls pulling in regular money through hooking or drug sales.
5) Sarah and Mel are actively soliciting money for their services and probably getting it pretty regularly. Sarah can even get MC to pay to have her arrange 2 other girls to service him in the glory hole. They pay Quinn her cut and have extra left over even if they are using the drugs Quinn provides, which there isn't any indication that they are since you never see them using. They may or may not be on the tuition program, and even if they are they may be fine with the original arrangement and keep their portion of the money they get from the restaurant.
6) Quinn and Riona are on the original tuition plan and want out of it. They are close to paying back all the money that they were fronted so they don't have to bang old dudes anymore and can run their little business in peace, keeping all the profits themselves. Quinn wants more so wants to expand and recruit additional restaurant girls and sell more drugs using them as mules/resellers. Riona is risk-averse and just wants to stick to the original agreement so she can pay off her tuition debt; the bigger the operation gets the greater the chance they will get caught or someone will rat them out, like Mona could still do.
Thus endeth the epistle.