> UC Berkeley alone enrolls more low income students than the entire Ivy League combined (this is true of several UCs). Some context for those interested: Berk

> UC Berkeley alone enrolls more low income students than the entire Ivy League combined (this is true of several UCs). Some context for those interested: Berkeley enrolls approximately 30k undergraduates; the Ivy League combined enrolls approximately 60k. The most commonly cited cutoff for "low income students" is recipients of federal Pell grants, which are (roughly speaking) available to US citizen or permanent resident undergraduates with a family AGI of <$50k. According to https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/economic-diversity-among-top-ranked-schools https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive... from US News, 34% of Berkeley undergraduates receive Pell Grants. (Berkeley's own website claims 32%.) This is the second-highest of the top 25 national universities, behind only UCLA at 38%. As a result, there are approximately 10k students receiving Pell grants at Berkeley. According to the same source, the percent of recipients in the Ivy league ranges from 31% at Columbia to 13% at Yale. Overall across the eight schools, it appears to be approximately 18% and slightly shy of 11k students. From a preliminary examination, it appears that the claim is indeed true for other UC campuses (of which only UCLA is a top 25 university) but not Berkeley as stated. The UC system makes the claim about five campuses other than Berkeley: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/half-new-uc-students-are-first-generation-college-students https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/half-new-uc-stud... The claim may have been true five years ago, as reported here: http://news.berkeley.edu/2012/01/17/freshman-apps/ http://news.berkeley.edu/2012/01/17/freshman-apps/