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Word broke from junior forward Mina Pell that Harvard in fact would not be traveling this weekend, as the NCAA had chosen Jordan Field, the home of Harvard field hockey, as a host site for the first two rounds...
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...
...study’s findings are consistent with other data on grants awarded to low-income students that suggests that fewer than 10 percent of Harvard families earn under $40,000 each year as compared to over 40 percent of families nationwide. Pell Grants are generally awarded only to families with a yearly income under...
...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...
...article also noted that, since blacks are three times as likely as whites to come from families living below the poverty level, data on Pell Grant recipients provides indirect information about the number of black students at a given school...