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<p>Uh, nor in mine. I said that that UC families are lower income is the biggest canard of all.</p>
<p>Now, that UC families are penurious being a canard is based on [perhaps</a> selective and dated piece](<a href=“http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/17/news/mn-47442]perhaps”>Heard the Latest One About USC and UCLA?), about UCLA families having higher income than USC. </p>
<p>UC students do get more income based Federal Grants. UC Berkeley has 30% [receiving</a> Federal grants](<a href=“College Navigator - Compare Institutions”>College Navigator - Compare Institutions), Pomona 12%. So maybe income levels are different between UC’s and comparable privates.</p>
<p>But I doubt that family income is much of a independent factor in explaining retention and graduation rates, if you hold constant academic qualifications and institutional factors. If there was evidence for family income being that much of a role, we’d probably have heard of it.</p>