The year is 20XX. After a few initial trials at a select few schools, it had finally begun trials at your school. Not heavily advertised, very selectly screened, but it was here, for those desperately looking for scholarships to cover their education.
The idea had been the work of educational scholars who'd paired with quantum physicists. Eligible students would have their entire college degree paid for, modest housing, and a stipend. In exchange, what was asked were 3 things:
1. That students did some work as arranged by the program for 10 hours a week. For the value of the scholarship, that was fair indeed, but work was very open to interpretation, to meet the needs of point 2.
2. The student will be subjected to an experimental retrouniversal nanobot regimen. What this did was suspend them between their default reality, and one transposed for the purposes of the experiment. Only those with the nanobots in their bloodstream could perceive what reality was currently in effect, while also remembering the existence of another. Or, to make it simpler (and if you need it simpler, you're likely not the candidate for such a prestigious scholarship!), another reality exists where another student is going to college; a totally different person, or a parallel reality analogue of the actual scholar, the person is unimportant. They attend school in that form, with all of reality being as if they'd been born and grown up as that person. This transformation is only lifted in the holidays: all the semesters attended must be in the alternate identity. The ability to remember will be restricted to the student and the staff monitoring them.
3. That the student submit to monitoring of the new life, as it may be an experiment into particular circumstances.
This may seem extreme, but to some, this would be an amazing opportunity, to go to a good school, with all expenses paid. And perhaps a broadening of the horizons wouldn't be so entirely bad, would it?