Harvard, Yale Struggle To Attract Low-Income Students With Aid (Bloomberg)
"Harvard, Yale University and other Ivy League schools say they aren't attracting as many disadvantaged students as they want, even with offers of free tuition," Bloomberg reports. "Harvard is dispatching recruiters to depressed U.S. locales, courting low-income applicants to help diversify the 6,715 undergraduates who are mostly from well-off families. Just 12 percent of Harvard undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a form of aid for households with income below about $40,000. More than 40 percent of U.S. families are in that category, according to the Census Bureau."
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