Thanks to anathan10 for this piece about enrollment by low-income students into elite colleges.

The proportion of financially needy undergraduates at the nation’s wealthiest colleges and universities actually dropped between the 2004-5 and 2006-7 academic years.

Thankfully, we’re doing better:

A few colleges surveyed had made small but real gains in the proportion of low-income students they enrolled, including Amherst, Holy Cross, and Williams Colleges; Princeton University; and the Universities of Richmond and Texas at Austin.

Diversity of background is important - I for one am very pleased the efforts of President Marx and other administrators to make Amherst more accessible and more visible to students who wouldn’t otherwise know to apply here.

Thoughts?