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Because only those students who apply for financial aid report their family incomes, a college-wide income distribution is impossible to calculate. But of the 47 percent of Harvard College students who receive scholarship aid, 35 percent have a family income of over $100,000. And assuming that those students who receive aid are among the neediest at Harvard, then 70 percent of students either make $100,000 or more—or can comfortably handle Harvard’s steep price tag while making less...
...good indicator of economic diversity in higher education is the percentage of students receiving federal Pell Grants, a scholarship offered to students with family incomes below about $40,000. A recent report by the left-leaning think tank the Century Foundation that relied on Pell numbers revealed that although Princeton’s student body is even less economically diverse than Harvard’s, and though Yale, Penn, Brown and Dartmouth are only slightly ahead, the two other members of the Ivy League dwarf their peers in diversity...
...Fitzsimmons found the idea of a school stealing his soul intriguing, and he applied. He was able to attend thanks to a nearly full scholarship, a dorm crew job and a few loans. So when Fitzsimmons talks about low-income students, he doesn’t usually say “low-income” or “poor,” but “kids from my kind of background” or “kids like...
...visits of between 185 and 200 students who couldn’t otherwise afford a trip, according to Parker. At Harvard, where more students overall are from low-income backgrounds, this number was only 95 last year, Director of Financial Aid Sally Donahue says. Columbia offers an entire scholarship program earmarked specifically for students from poor backgrounds that assures a set number of low-income applicants will get in each year, and acts as its own advertisement for affordability...
Further, some faculty members have questioned whether the word “women” should be dropped from the new name. While some other schools have done this, we do not want to forget or make invisible the role of women in current scholarship, nor do we want to neglect the history of CDWS. Preserving the word “women” in the title is particularly important in light of the history of women at Harvard, one of the last leading universities to admit women as equal students (it was only in 2000, after all, that female...