<p>Turns out there’s very little tie between how rich a college is and how earnestly they pursue Pell Grant recipients:</p>
<p><a href=“Varied Enrollment of Low-Income Students - Graphic - NYTimes.com”>Varied Enrollment of Low-Income Students - Graphic - NYTimes.com;
<p>Interesting factoid: the three top schools mentioned in the first paragraph of the article have widely different endowment per student ratios with Amherst weighing in at over a million dollars per student while Emory and Vassar each come in at around $300,000 per student. HYP each have less Pell Grant recipients per student than New England’s Little Three (Wesleyan, Williams and Amherst).
Here’s a link to the article:
<a href=“Efforts to Recruit Poor Students Lag at Some Elite Colleges - The New York Times”>Efforts to Recruit Poor Students Lag at Some Elite Colleges - The New York Times;