What the Princeton Review didn’t reveal about its annual college financial-aid ranking

“While many of the schools on the list offer average scholarships and grants topping $40,000, that generosity belies a crucial detail: these schools educate a small share of the low-income college student population. At all but one of the so-called top five colleges for financial aid, the share of students who receive Pell grants or the money the federal government offers to low-income students is at 15% or below.”