Yield Gain for Low- and Moderate-Income White Women

This is the time of year when colleges boast about their incoming classes. Press releases discuss academic credentials, diversity of all kinds and total numbers of applicants and enrolling students. Oxford College of Emory University (GA) is a two-year liberal arts college in Oxford, Ga., that is affiliated with the university and sends its graduates there to finish bachelor's degrees. This year, officials at Oxford upped financial aid spending as they raised tuition, and their yield projections were generally on target, with one exception -- the yield of low- and moderate-income white women was up, by a lot.