The percentage of students from the highest quintile has never
been less than 48.1 percent or more than 56.9 percent. The fraction of
students from the lowest quintile has never been greater than 5.5 percent.
In the most recent year for which quintile census data are available, more than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two
quintiles of family income.
In 2005, the most recent year for which census data are available, the
lowest quintile included household incomes no greater than $19,178, and
the highest quintile contained household incomes greater than $91,705.