Oh boy. @twoinanddone . NESCAC kids i know are very wealthy, very poor and plenty in between.
Our state schools don’t meet full financial need so very few poor kids are there, other than at CCs and some regional campuses. OSU just announced this fall they will cover full tuition cost for instate Pell-eligible families, but that still leaves $10-15K or so in housing/food expenses (on campus required first two years), so we’ll see how that works out.
My kid’s NESCAC has more Pell-eligible students than our flagship and most of our state Us.