My concerns about the PEOPLE at Yale

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It’s true, Stanford has the most rich kids in HYPSM.</p>

<p>Stanford 51.3% (awarded any financial aid, 3,530 out of 6,879)
Yale 51.4% (2,715 out of 5,277, <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/oir/cds.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/oir/cds.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)
Harvard 57.0% (3,813 out of 6,686, <a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/insti…_Web_Clean.pdf%5B/url%5D”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/insti…_Web_Clean.pdf</a>)
Princeton 58.8% (2,953 out of 5,024, <a href=“http://registrar.princeton.edu/unive...on_cds2010.pdf[/url]”>http://registrar.princeton.edu/unive...on_cds2010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)
MIT 63.9% (2,694 out of 4,218, MIT Office of the Provost, Institutional Research)

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<p>This doesn’t show that Stanford has the most rich kids, nor that any one of HYPS has more rich kids than the others–the % on “need”-based aid is totally dependent on the financial aid policies, and unsurprisingly, of the four, Princeton and Harvard have the highest % and they’re known to be the most generous with their determination of “need” (if anything, their higher % on aid is indicative of there being more upper-income students at H and P). Yale and Stanford come in next, and they’re generally perceived to be slightly less generous. MIT though seems to be committed to enrolling more students who would qualify for aid (probably why they accept so many through QuestBridge).</p>

<p>Stanford also has the most low-income students of the four – 17% of the undergrads receive the Pell Grant.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/undergraduate.html[/url]”>http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/undergraduate.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;