How well are the nation's top universities doing at opening their doors to low-income students? One way to answer that question is to look at the share of undergraduates who receive federal Pell Grants, which are awarded based on financial need. There's no income cutoff for those grants, but 75 percent of the students who received them in the 2011-2012 academic year had family incomes of $30,000 or less.
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