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21 Elite Colleges Where Middle Class Students Go For Free
Free tuition guarantees have now been extended by 21 private schools that rank in the top 50 on Forbes’ list of America’s Top 500 Colleges. While the schools like to brag about the share of U.S. families that would qualify for free tuition under their guarantees–some say as high as 85%—their actual students bodies skew wealthy. That means many don’t qualify for any institutional aid at all, let alone free tuition. Even at generous Princeton, which brags that 25% of its incoming freshman class last year was eligible to receive federal Pell grants for low income families, an even greater 31% of…
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