@emorynavy No, it is not an apples and oranges comparison because they have similar median household/family incomes WELL OVER 100k which puts the average student out of range for either Emory Advantage package and certainly out of range for Pell. Get serious here. I don’t give a damned about it reducing Pell Grants to pursue some rankings. It shouldn’t be doing that, and you threw GA into the mix as if reducing recruitment from GA would achieve that goal. It won’t. Period. Perhaps your kind of nefarious plan to game the rankings and exclude more low income students should target students from TN or Mississippi. I am personally not down for any of this, but the facts are not on your side in supporting exclusion of more GA students helping to exclude more Pell Grant recipients. If UGA and Tech are on our tails in terms of the wealth of students they recruit with mostly GA students (UGA may still be 80% + GA students), do you seriously think Emory is recruiting poorer GA students on average than either of them (if anything, it skims off the students from the highest earning families in GA. To get to the 10-20% of GA students that enroll at Emory, you only need like 450 students total. It is not hard to ensure that 300-350 are at least close to or well over 100k. UGA has managed with like an incoming cohort of 5000 or so and Tech 2500 or so. Over 1/2 of those cohorts are over like 125k)? Come on. It would be so intellectually dishonest to answer that question with a yes. The few very low income students in Pell range who come to Emory are those so poor that Emory ends up being a bargain versus UGA or Tech. This is not that common.
And for the record, in my own demographic’s interest, I am one of those few for which it happened, and I don’t think it would help to exclude the few of us who fall into that range and are qualified to attend and do well at Emory, especially for those reasons. That is just a dirt poor, unethical idea especially since the school now espouses ideals of social justice in that and other some other contexts.
I feel as if such logic should be more easily applied to those outside of GA who fall in Pell Grant territory. If you want to be shamefully pragmatic, at least Emory wouldn’t have to pay full freight (minus their Pell Grant) for GA students as HOPE is picking up a small portion of the tab. Emory technically pays more to provide aid to EA qualifying students outside of GA.
*The only thing I will take back is GA being higher than Florida in terms of income…I am unsure but they are strikingly similar and metro Atlanta is likely better off than all large metros in Florida by a mile.