<p>Excellent article in today's NY Times shows the varied enrollment of low-income students. Undergrads receiving Pell grants range from 22% at Amherst to only 7% at Wash U.</p>
<p>Not too surprising given that students from high income families tend to have access to better K-12 schooling, test preparation, college counseling at the high school, extracurricular activities, college application packaging assistance services, etc. that tend to impress college admissions readers.</p>
<p>Students from low income families like [this</a> one](<a href=“http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/30/5457373/elk-grove-teen-goes-9-for-9-in.html]this”>http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/30/5457373/elk-grove-teen-goes-9-for-9-in.html) tend to be rare (that he was the subject of a newspaper article shows how unusual his achievements are for students from low income families).</p>