"The American Talent Initiative (ATI), a national alliance of leading colleges and universities, announced this week that it is on track to reach its goal of enrolling 50,000 additional low-income students at colleges and universities with the highest graduation rates, including Yale, by 2025.
A new report ATI released Feb. 19 shows that in 2017-2018 U.S. colleges and universities with graduation rates of 70% or higher enrolled 20,696 more students who qualified for Pell grants than they did in 2015-2016, the year before the initiative began. Pell grants are a federal need-based program for low-income students.
The 20,696 students represent a 4% increase in the total number of Pell recipients attending these schools. During the same period, the total number of Pell recipients at Yale increased 25%.
More recent data shows a 50% increase in this population at Yale between 2015 and 2016 and 2019 and 2020. Approximately one in every five first-year and sophomore students in Yale College currently qualify for a Pell grant." …
https://news.yale.edu/2020/02/20/yales-low-income-student-population-grows