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The Experts' Choice: Colleges that Try Hardest to Meet the Financial Need of Traditionally Underrepresented Students

For high-profile schools with huge piggy banks, it's easy to grant scholarships to deserving students, but we wanted to know which colleges really bent over backwards to make sure underrepresented and first-generation students were able to attend.

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• California, U of, System
• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Aurora University (Aurora, IL)
• Ball State University (Muncie, IN)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
• Fisk University (Nashville, TN)
• Fordham University (New York, NY)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Indiana State University (Terre Haute, IN)
• Kean University (Union, NJ)
• Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
• New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Purdue University — West Lafayette (West Lafayette, IN)
• Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ)
• Texas A&M University — Kingsville (Kingsville, TX)
• The University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)
• Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
• Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
• University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, TX)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)