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But this is a self-contained story, and right now this college is his world and will be his world for the next 4 years. What happens after college isn't the concern, what happens now is, and as is so often the case at that age, everything seems much bigger than it is and a person's social standing means a lot and carries a lot of weight. Therefore, having the name of Royce and Burgmeister at this college carries some perks, like Jill being able to live in the Prep mansion and the campus authorities looking the other way so Rusty can get alcohol in to the DIK parties.His family background, whether it be a family with a few million in the bank, earned over the last 2 generations, or an inherited wealth of billions accumulated over 200 years and retain through mutliple stock market crashes, shouldn't really affect how we see him. How he reacts upon learning about this background might.
My point was about the B&R names not mattering all that much once you leave the college environment and venture out into the real world. At B&R, Jill's last name matters, that doesn't mean it matters everywhere and the fact that Rusty was rejected by the Preps supports that (if he were a hot girl, maybe things would've been different and s/he'd have got a room too.
The purpose of potentially revealing the MC's heritage would be to affect both him and those around him as part of the overall narrative. It's not meant to have an affect on the player's perceptions, but seeing how it impacts the story is, and that's why it would be done, because it adds extra flavour/drama to the story.
Also, Rusty was turned away from the Preps because he didn't fit the snooty, preppy mould. Had he been more of an elitist snob as all other Preps seem to be, then he may have been accepted. So it's not that he was rejected for being a Burgmeister, he was rejected for not being like them.