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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another factor that impacts the number of applications and quality (UVA had a record 41,000 this year, I believe) completely unrelated to any shrinking demographics statewide is the fact that we are going through a sea change in American thinking about who should go to college.  When I graduated from high school, students did a variety of things; there was no assumption that EVERYONE was going on to college, much less a four-year one.  Now, just look at the graduation list of Langley or McLean High School.  With the exception of a few Mormon missionaries there is a college behind the name of every single student and most are four-year institutions.We now assume - as a society (and this is not the norm in Europe) that all high school graduates will go to college and that everyone needs a four year degree in order to get a good job.  So even if demographics fall across a state, the number of high school students applying to college will still rise, and of course, certainly in the expanding urban areas of that state.[/quote]

That is wrong.  Number of overall students applying to college is declining.  Kids have been applying to more colleges.  Yields generally going down because of that.[/quote]

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