<p>^^ There is a hard cost to locating and recruiting low SES students at a national level and remember those SES students need to be at least minimally capable of doing the work and not failing out. I have no doubt state publics KNOW who those low SES/superior academic IN-state students are and my guess is there is high yield for unis with those students. Looking nationally or even regionally for high SES/high academic student might be a wish or a vision but from a business perspective may not be an imperative. It is far easier to strive for cultural diversity than economic diversity for universities with high academic success as the threshold to acceptance…and success of the individual student at the university. If you are receiving 40-50,000 applications for 5-6000 seats administration needs to ask itself if there is an imperative to be looking for 1,000 kids that are high academic/low SES. You will automatically find that high academic/low SES in the 40-50,000 applications…or your coaches will. In Michigan you’ve got that other Big 10 school an hour away looking for those same kids. Detroit is an island and not reflective at all of the entire state and Detroit has a declining population which further compounds the difficulty of the “search” for high academic/low SES students.</p>