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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
According to the NYT based on Opportunity Insights data:

Top 25 Colleges by Median Family Income of Students (Class of 2013, 2015 \$)

1. **Washington University in St. Louis** – \$272,000
2. **Colgate University** – \$270,200
3. **Washington & Lee University** – \$261,000
4. **Middlebury College** – \$244,300
5. **Colby College** – \$236,000
6. **Tufts University** – \$224,800
7. **Davidson College** – \$213,900
8. **Kenyon College** – \$213,500
9. **Brown University** – \$204,200
10. **Bucknell University** – \$204,200
11. **Vanderbilt University** – \$204,500
12. **Claremont McKenna College** – \$201,300
13. **Dartmouth College** – \$200,400
14. **University of Pennsylvania** – \$195,500
15. **Boston College** – \$194,100
16. **Yale University** – \$192,600
17. **Duke University** – \$186,700
18. **Princeton University** – \$186,100
19. **Johns Hopkins University** – \$177,300
20. **Northwestern University** – \$171,200
21. **Stanford University** – \$167,500
22. **Harvard University** – \$168,000–168,800
23. **USC (University of Southern California)** – \$161,400
24. **University of Virginia** – \$155,500
25. **Carnegie Mellon University** – \$154,700
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The data behind this is at least 15 years old. Much has changed since then.

And SLACs have so few students that a handful of private equity or hedge fund families would completely distort averages. This is not a useful list for 2025. Especially since US NEWS changed their algorithm and now really value Pell Grant students and FGLI so on in their rankings. No doubt that has distorted and altered acceptances in recent years. For the schools that charge nearly a $100,000 a year, it's increasingly a barbell - rich and low income, and not much in between. The real superstar schools are those that make it work for talented MC and UMC students - and there aren't many. Maybe 15. [/quote]

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