The "$500 Million Club" of Colleges Tends to Be Stingy With Aid to Low-Income Students

Call them the top four percent: elite private colleges and universities that together sit atop three-quarters of the higher education terrain's endowment wealth.

Among that group of 138 of the nation's wealthiest colleges and universities, four in five charge poor students so much that they'd need to surrender 60 percent or more of their household incomes just to attend, even after financial aid is considered.  Read more.