<p>This is an interesting ranking and should be viewed along side all others as another piece of the whole picture. But, with respect to the comment:</p>
<p>“What really did in Princeton were mediocre scores on national service and social mobility, categories in which it should have excelled,” the article says of the new list’s results. It says “Harvard has the lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients in its student body of any school in the country.”</p>
<p>I wonder if explanation might be, in part, that the Princetons and Harvards are in a position to be so much more generous than most schools with outright grants.</p>