Replaying the latest episode a bit, do you think Burke was gonna give Maya the tuition without the, erm, side activities before she mentioned the HOTs and he realized he needed to get rid of her? My first playthrough I thought not but he didn't really hint at any of that while filling out her information.
While all evidence points to Burke being a scumbag, there is something that would indicate that when he deletes Maya's name from the tuition spreadsheet it's not because she doesn't want to become a hooker or happens to be a member of the HOTs. In the conversation right before he deletes her info Maya tells him that her major is going to be social work. So let's look at the actual scenario:
The school year has already begun, and they are past mid-terms. Most scholarships are awarded prior to school beginning, so the available ones that late in the term are going to be few and far between. A lot of scholarships are earmarked for specific purposes (helping out a student with some particular disadvantage or achievement, students studying a particular field, etc.). Sage approaches her father telling him there is a student she knows who needs a scholarship. Sage's major is economics, and a lot of the money Burke brings to the school are from his friends in the financial sector. Burke may have assumed that when Sage asked him that it was for some student in one of her classes, not just some random girl on campus. He may have exhausted all of the general scholarship money but still had some that was specifically allocated to students in the business or economics program so he thought he could do his daughter a favor. When Maya said she wasn't in a related field he had to take her name off of the scholarship because she didn't qualify, and then went into presenting legitimate options to her since he didn't have any money available for her. Had she come to him at the beginning of the term, or just before it, he might have had some money available but this late in the game all of his options were exhausted.
The sponsor name on the form indicates that the scholarship that he was setting up for Maya was the same one that Mona had. We don't know what Mona's major was, but if she was in the business/economics program before she withdrew then that would have freed up the money Burke was looking at. Since Maya didn't qualify he couldn't offer it to her.
