First generation low-income students are no longer the outsiders they once were. On elite campuses, they are now a critical mass – 17 percent of freshman at Yale and Princeton. At Penn, the university’s president, Amy Gutmann, a first gen herself, made the point, in her remarks in Irvine Auditorium, that when she became president in 2004, one in 20 students were first generation low-income, or FGLI (at Penn it’s said “figly”). They are now one in eight. More than 25 percent of Penn freshman are first-gen, high-financial-need or both.