@bclintonk: OK, you’ve forced me to do the legwork to prove you wrong.
The problem with your breakdown by income is that you don’t have the percentages for each income bracket.
Luckily for us, the NYT provides that:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/amherst-college
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-massachusetts
21% of the Amherst student body is from the top 1% by income. Less than 1% of the UMass student body is.
41% of the Amherst student body is from the top 5% by income. 9.1% of the UMass student body is.
51% of the Amherst student body is from the top 10% by income. 24% of the UMass student body is.
60% of the Amherst student body is from the top 20% by income. 46% of the UMass student body is.
4.7% of the Amherst student body is from the bottom 20% by income. 5.8% of the UMass student body is.
Median family income at Amherst is 158.2K.
Median family income at UMass is 102.9K.
Here are the most amazing statistics:
On a per capita basis, UMass does a better job of advancing the poor than Amherst does:
13% of Amherst grads moved up 2 or more quintiles.
17% of UMass grads moved up 2 or more quintiles.
2% of Amherst grads moved from the bottom to top quintile.
2.1% of UMass grads moved from the bottom to top quintile.