There’s an old joke that Harvard’s definition of diversity is having a rich kid from New York room with a rich kid from California. No doubt the joke has also been told about Yale or Duke and about kids from places other than New York and California.
I thought of the joke while looking through the Chronicle of Higher Education’s fascinating interactive graphic on the percentage of students at various elite colleges who are Pell Grant recipients. Pell Grants are easily the country’s largest financial-aid program and, as a rule of thumb, they tend to go to students who come from the bottom half of nation’s income distribution.
In 2008, the most recent year in the Chronicle’s data, a mere 6.5 percent of Harvard students received Pell Grants. And Harvard wasn’t all that unusual among elite colleges. At Washington University in St. Louis, only 5.7 percent of students received Pell Grants. At the University of Pennsylvania, the share was 8.2 percent. At Duke and Northwestern, it was 8.3 percent. At Notre Dame, it was 8.4 percent. The numbers at Yale (8.9 percent), and Princeton (9.9 percent) were also fairly low. The share at Stanford was 12 percent.
Institution PellRecipients Percentage of StudentsReceiving Pells Change in Pell Percentage,2004 to 2008 Washington U. in St Louis 449 5.70% -0.4 Harvard U. 963 6.50% 0.6 U. of Virginia 1,289 7.00% 0.3 U. of Pennsylvania 1,064 8.20% -0.5 Duke U. 609 8.30% -1.2 Northwestern U. 815 8.30% -0.3 U. of Notre Dame 726 8.40% -1 U. of Richmond 351 8.80% 3.3 Yale U. 537 8.90% -0.5 Boston College 979 9.20% -0.2 Princeton U. 492 9.90% 2.4 Johns Hopkins U. 636 10.00% 0.3 Tufts U. 552 10.00% 0.3 Swarthmore College 154 10.20% -1.5 Rice U. 353 10.40% 0.3 U. of Wisconsin at Madison 3,551 10.50% -1 Vanderbilt U. 719 10.70% -0.6 Brown U. 719 10.90% 0.3 California Institute of Technology 103 11.00% -5.1 Pomona College 176 11.40% 0.1 Stanford U. 923 12.00% 0.9 Dartmouth College 551 12.10% -0.4 U. of Chicago 631 12.20% 0.3 Cornell U. 1,789 12.50% -2.9 Grinnell College 219 12.60% 0 U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 3,416 12.80% -0.2 U. of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 2815 13.00% -3.1 Indiana U. at Bloomington 4,703 13.20% -2.1 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2,572 13.30% -0.3 Emory U. 987 13.50% 1.7 Wellesley College 348 13.70% -2.2 U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 6,034 14.00% -0.4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 636 14.80% 0.6 New York U. 3,603 14.80% -0.6 Pennsylvania State U. at University Park 6,047 14.80% -1.9 U. of Rochester 857 14.80% -1.4 U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4,876 14.90% -0.8 Williams College 321 14.90% 4.4 Columbia U. 1,193 15.10% -0.2 Purdue U.-Main Campus 5,362 15.40% -0.8 U. of Southern California 2,777 15.60% -2.1 Amherst College 290 15.90% 2.7 Texas A&M U. 6,733 16.20% -1 Case Western Reserve U. 782 17.30% 2 U. of Washington 6,153 17.40% -0.9 Ohio State U. 8,123 17.80% -2.2 Michigan State U. 7,141 18.80% 0.9 The U. of Texas at Austin 8,542 21.40% 1.7 Smith College 645 23.60% -1.1 U. of California at Los Angeles 8,869 30.70% -3.1
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