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Columbia and Cornell each boast nearly double the percentage of Pell Grant recipients as Harvard’s 9 percent, the second-lowest in the Ivy League. At Columbia, 1,023 students received Pell Grants in the 2001-02 academic year; at Harvard, where the student body is larger by 2,000, only about...
...Let’s face it, out of all the universities in the country, Harvard has more market power than any other. If it really wanted to, it could steal some of those Pell Grant recipients from other universities,” Heller says. “If Larry Summers woke up tomorrow and said, ‘This is what we’re going to spend the next ten years on—moving the number of Pell Grant recipients at Harvard,’ I guarantee that Harvard could do that...
Even in the eyes of its toughest critics, Harvard is not the lone offender. Plenty of schools have just as little economic diversity, as measured by Pell Grant percentages. In fact, some criticize other schools in the Ivy League even more...
...these schools, none can claim to have transcended class lines especially by the Pell Grant numbers. Harvard, in particular, for all its talk of income diversity, remains a bastion of wealth...
...letter also questions whether the factors used to choose the grant recipient favored Schreiber and Harvard, due to Schreiber’s prominence in the field, his friendship with Klausner and his former position on the NCI’s Scientific Advisory Board...