Between 2002 and 2020, undergraduate enrollment of first-generation students at the school doubled, from 7% to 14% Even though nearly a fifth of Dartmouth students are considered “low income” the school’s enrollment skews towards students from upper income households. The median family income of a Dartmouth student is $200,400, The New York Times reports. About 69% of Dartmouth students come from the nation’s 20% highest-earning households, those earning $110,000 or more per year. More than one-fifth of students come from the highest-earning 1% of American households, or those earning over $630,000 per year. Dartmouth is one of 38 colleges in the U.S. that enrolls more students from the top 1% than from the entire bottom 60%. For comparison, at UNH and Plymouth, around 2% of their students are from the top 1%. At Keene State and SNHU, less than 1% of their students come from the top 1%.