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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sort of by definition, if 2/3 are receiving aid, 2/3 are low income or poor. Also don’t forget about international students who are usually not receiving much aid (except t at a few schools) and they are 10 percent. So that could leave 30 pct of US students not receiving aid- maybe half of them are more or less just over the threshold (parents taking out loans) and half are well to do. That means a campus could be 60 percent poor and like 10 percent rich.

Begs the question- why would a rich person be excited to send their kids to a school with primarily poor kids who are there to try to use rich kids for their connections?[/quote]

Receiving aid =/ low income or poor

A family making $160k isn’t low-income or poor by any definition, anywhere. [/quote]

It sort of is if you look at the cohort of families where the primary breadwinner is in their 40s or 50s. Definitely closer to the median there. Not poor in the sense of on the cusp of starvation but scraping by, things are tight, and spending 80k a year on a liberal arts education is ridiculous [/quote]

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