<p>i;ve never seen universities posting stats about the family incomes of their students............the only stat i;ve seen is that over 20% of UVa kids come from families with a >200,000$ income........i saw that on a newspaper article.</p>
<p>i assume ivy students would be the richest on average.....however, lots of students there have financial aid offers. (such as my sister at Princeton)</p>
<p>out of curiousity.....any guess?</p>
<p>I would think it would be LACs that don't guarantee 100% of need, but let's not ignore the fact that the very rich and very influential are at ivies.</p>
<p>I suppose it depends on the LAC, but schools like Amherst have some of the highest endowment percentages among alums of any school. In fact, they value aid so much that it offered financial aid since the 1800s. And if they disagree with what FAFSA says you should pay, they give out Amherst money instead of fed gov $. So, I'd assume that the students and alums are pretty wealthy in order for Amherst to give extra financial aid to those that need it.</p>
<p>21% of parents of Northwestern University students earn 200 thousand dollars or more, and 29% earn 100 thousand dollars or more. I'm sure this is on the low side for a big uni. like NU..... Warren Buffets grandson also attends our school, and his family has 40 billion dollars, lol.</p>
<p>Among State Unis, UVA, Michigan, Colorado and Vermont have very wealthy students.</p>
<p>kk,</p>
<p>You probably mean 21% > 200K and 29% <200K but >100K. Otherwise, it's a very unusual distribution. ;)</p>
<p>Campusdirt.com lists income %</p>
<p>There's really no question it would be the Ivies, with the largest proportion of students paying the full $180k freight (meaning minimum family incomes of $160k, and the median at some of the institutions likely at least double that.) There are some anomalies, such as Washington & Lee and Davidson (and to a slightly lesser extent Williams, Trinity, Georgetown, and Middlebury) where the full-freight customers may make up even higher percentages of the student population.</p>
<p>campusdirt lists income % of kids who responded</p>
<p>so unless its like 200 kids, its unreliable</p>
<p>isn't vermont one of the poorest states??</p>
<p>I'm not going by numbers or anything but from my tour of W&L they must be up there somewhere</p>
<p>For universities, I think Yale has the wealthiest students. It has the most percentage of freshmen coming from private schools of all top universites.</p>
<p>SMU is definitely up there, as is Trinity - old Texas oil money</p>
<p>Ditto to Kcirsch about SMU and Trinity. Maybe Vanderbilt too? I'm guessing Ivies as well?</p>
<p>im thinking nyu, its widely regarded as having well dressed, preppy students. and, any student that could afford to live in manhattan, not inlcuding tuition and housing, is wealthy enough.</p>