On the other, since 1963, most of the school's students have been from very ordinary families, often the first of their clan ever to attend college. It has had an ineradicable impact on social mobility for the colony's lower class.
另一方面，從六三年到現在，就讀中大的學生，百分之八十五的成員來自平民家庭，且多半是這些家庭「有史以來」第一個念大學的孩子，對香港社會的階層流動，有著不可磨滅的影響。