Word: jbhe
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Although low-income students have valuable perspectives to contribute to Harvard, a new study on federal Pell Grant awards suggests that diversity here rarely extends beyond the middle and upper classes. Research published in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) reports that low-income enrollment at Harvard ranks behind 18 of the 26 most prestigious universities nationwide. While on average 15 percent of students at these top schools receive federal financial aid in the form of Pell Grants, Harvard’s financial aid office approximates that just over 9 percent of undergraduates here are among them...
...Harvard is especially difficult because, as Director of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program Roger Banks points out, “mythologies surrounding places like Harvard are very muscular.” But the fact that mythologies may be more imposing at Harvard than elsewhere does not explain why the JBHE reports that Harvard’s Pell Grant numbers have increased far less than other highly selective schools like Cornell, Yale and Duke...
Donahue said the JBHE study did not take into account the differences between Harvard and many of the 25 other schools surveyed...
...JBHE article also said that Harvard’s competitive applicant pool puts low income students—who typically score lower on standardized tests—at a disadvantage...
...different study in JBHE this fall found that Stanford University surpassed Harvard in black student yield for the first time in 20 years...