US News has a story this week on low income college students (thank you Susan for the link)--a "rare and invisible minority" they call them, which I think speaks volumes in and of itself. The article ends with two tables--one on Pell Grants per college and one on universities that are replacing loans with grants. The section title? "Where the Poor Are."
INSTITUTION (STATE) PELL GRANT RECIPIENTS PCT. OF TOTAL UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
Univ. of Calif.-Los Angeles 35.1
Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley 32.4
Amherst College (MA) 15.8
Columbia Univ.(NY) 14.9
Univ. of N.C.-Chapel Hill 13.2
Univ. of Mich.-Ann Arbor 12.5
Yale University (CT) 10.1
Williams College (MA) 9.4
Princeton University (NJ) 7.4
Harvard University (MA) 6.8
Source: Century Foundation, figures from the 2001-2002 academic year
DEBT RELIEF
These schools have replaced loans with grants in their neediest students' financial aid packages. Princeton has done so for all students receiving aid.
INSTITUTION
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
Rice University
University of Maryland-College Park
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
Yale University
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