Low-income enrollment at elite private schools

To go to Yale or Harvard? You need a lot more than that. Not to mention a better SAT score.

 

OK. A 1400. A 1500. The point stands. Whatever application window dressing isn't available to an inner-city student can be neutralized by a high standardized test score. It's the one chance to compete on equal footing with Suzie Prom Queen.

 

Why do you have to go to Yale or Harvard? What's wrong with UMass or UConn?

I mean besides the fact they're in Amherst and Storrs...

 

Harvard and Yale have a no-loan policy to meet financial need.

 

I thought that's what this thread was about -- "elite private schools."

 

Not talking about financial need here. The Harvards, Yales, Stanfords, etc. are great about that. But you've got to get in. The acceptance rate at Harvard and Yale is something like eight percent.

 

I get that. My point is, I don't agree with the premise of the story. You don't have a constitutional right to an Ivy League education.

And there's certainly nothing wrong with a state school education.

 

You need more than a score to get into those schools, too. Every kid in America with a 1400 or better is applying. Less than 10 percent of them will get in.

 

What is a good and acceptable percentage of low-income students that a private college should have?

 

As a parent with kids at and near college age and a limited budget, I am with you there.

 

The point is that they can compete on the score. They may not be able to take six trips to Calcutta to feed orphaned Congolese refugee monkeys. But they can compete on the score.

 

Boston University is private and is at least as expensive as BC. It's a playground for rich kids (though its academics and selectivity have definitely shot up in the last couple of decades).