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<p>I’m curious as to how someone would be able to tell the financial status of students in their class accurately enough to make a generalization like this. With a handful of exceptions, I have no idea how much aid my classmates receive, and which ones get full freight from their parents.</p>
<p>FWIW, I’ve tried to find data (because numbers are awesome!) about racial diversity and financial aid awards before and after Oberlin went need-aware, but it looks like the Institutional Research site doesn’t go back that far. (I have found articles indicating that among LACs, Oberlin has one of the highest percentages of low-income students… but nothing about how that number has changed in the last 20 years.)</p>