Elite Colleges Go After Low-Income Recruits

Parents Forum
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<p>"What's the use of getting low income kids to apply if you won't accept anyi of them. Word gets around and no one will apply next year".</p>

<p>Ellemenope: See Harvard Crimson May 13, 2005
"More low-income students than ever before will enter Harvard Yard as freshmen next fall, in what administrators are hailing as a promising sign for the College’s recent financial aid reforms.
Students from families earning annual incomes under $60,000 will comprise nearly 18 percent of the Class of 2009, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. In previous years, the figure has hovered around 15 percent."</p>

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<p>under $60,000 makes you low income?
Our EFC is still practically $15,000</p>

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<p>The mean family income last time I looked is $52.5k. $60k would put you in the top 40% in family income. But, hey, let's give them some credit - I think this means they will be catching up to Yale (and that's a good thing.)</p>

<p>Does this mean that Harvard has dropped its "need-blind" deceptive facade?</p>

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<p>interesting, mini. Is that figure, 52 .5 K, the mean of the "low income students?" And why are you referencing Yale?</p>

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<p>I referenced Yale because at last released data, H.'s percentage of Pell Grant recipients (usually $40k and below) was at 6.8%, just about the lowest in the country for prestige schools (only Davidson and Washington & Lee were lower), wherease Yale's were more than 40% higher, at 9.9%. The $52.5k is (or was) the median income for families nationwide. $60k inches toward the upper echelons.</p>

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<p>Looks like the pump is primed.</p>