<p>The Federal Pell Grant Program provides need-based grants to low-income undergraduate and certain postbaccalaureate students to promote access to postsecondary education. The tabulation below shows how Reed compares to certain “Most Competitive Institutions” in the percentage of students receiving Pell grants, and thus suggests that one result of Reed’s financial aid policies is to enable a relatively high percentage of needy students to attend. There will be some cases where the FA offer is not enough to enable attendance, but, on average, I think Reed looks pretty good in this respect.</p>
<p>Barnard College/Columbia University 18.4%
Cooper Union 17.1%
Cornell University 16.3%
Reed College 16.3%
Amherst College 15.8%
Wellesley College 15.6%
California Institute of Technology 15.3%
Columbia University 14.9%
Claremont McKenna College 14.5%
Wesleyan University 13.8%
Haverford College 13.4%
Swarthmore College 13.0%
Georgia Institute of Technology 12.5%
Rice University 12.5%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12.4%
University of Chicago 12.4%
Pomona College 12.0%
Vassar College 11.9%
Stanford University 11.7%
Harvey Mudd College 11.5%
Carnegie Mellon University 11.4%
Dartmouth College 10.9%
Georgetown University 10.8%
Boston College 10.6%
Colgate University 10.4%
Tufts University 10.4%
Bowdoin College 10.2%
Duke University 10.1%
Yale University 10.1%
University of Pennsylvania 9.8%
Brown University 9.7%
Johns Hopkins University 9.6%
Northwestern University 9.5%
Williams College 9.4%
Bates College 8.7%
College of the Holy Cross 8.6%
University of Virginia 8.6%
Middlebury College 8.1%
College of William and Mary 8.0%
University of Notre Dame 8.0%
Washington University in St. Louis 8.0%
Princeton University 7.4%
Wake Forest University 7.0%
Harvard University 6.8%
Colby College 6.5%
Davidson College 6.4%
Washington and Lee University 3.4%</p>
<p>Sources:
[Federal</a> Pell Grant Program](<a href=“http://www.ed.gov/programs/fpg/index.html]Federal”>Federal Pell Grant Program)
<a href=“http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/pellgrant.pdf[/url]”>http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/pellgrant.pdf</a></p>