Recent studies have shown that at the nation’s highest ranking universities, the percentage of students that come from the lower 50 percent of families by income has not increased in more than 20 years. These findings suggest that elite colleges in America are unlikely to actively recruit poor students. Among the elite schools, nearly all of them with large endowments, there is little correlation between the school's wealth and the number of students who receive Pell Grants.

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