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That a greater share of middle - income students now
receive Pell
Grants is only part of the Pell
proxy's middle - income problem.
Most studies using the Pell
proxy, however, are focused on four - year institutions, and limiting the analysis to this group of students shows that the share of low - income students who
received a Pell
Grant is still surprisingly low (73.2 percent).
In summary, the share of students who
received a Pell
Grant is a widely used
proxy for low - income students because
grants are awarded mainly to those students; data on how many students at each institution of higher education
receive a Pell
Grant is readily available; and finally, data on student incomes at each institution of higher education has only recently become available and does not cover all students at each institution.
In addition to higher application rates, those who use the Pell
proxy should be aware of another trend that has contributed to more students
receiving Pell
Grants.
Many middle - income students now
receive Pell
Grants, meaning the Pell
proxy is capturing students who are not low - income.
The main justification for the Pell
proxy is that most students who
receive Pell
Grants are low - income.
These trends may have affected the makeup of Pell
Grant recipients and the share of students of students who
receive Pell
Grants differently at each institution, further reducing reliability of the Pell
proxy to make cross-institutional comparisons.
These results stand in contrast to the implicit assumption in the Pell
proxy that nearly all low - income students
receive Pell
Grants.
So far the discussion has focused on the share of students who did not
receive a Pell
Grant in 2011 - 12, which has implications for the Pell
proxy because it suggests the
proxy is undercounting low - income students.
Those who use the Pell
proxy rarely note, however, that far fewer than 100 percent of low - income students
receive Pell
Grants, even at four - year institutions.