Wait. That’s a little misleading, isn’t it? For the majority of the Amherst College class, it is literally impossible to move up 2 or more quintiles in family income because they are already there. How can that cherry-picked statistic prove that UMass does a better job at advancing the poor?
Amherst College provides far better financial aid to the poor - the school essentially is free for those under 70k in family income, with no loans in the aid package. That’s not a knock on UMass. Amherst College just has a lot more money and spends more of it on aid to low income students than pretty much any college in America.