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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People keep blaming the “demographic cliff” for enrollment declines, but schools in the SEC and other popular schools have had enrollment increases.

The schools that are being hurt are the too expensive for what they’re worth, like Elon and Syracuse. [/quote]

People talk "on average". The enrollment decline will eventually happen at these SEC schools as well. It's related to the actual number of college eligible people. That number is declining due to trending lower fertility rates. It's not fiction it's fact. Newsflash people have been have fewer kids. [/quote]

No, you are wrong.  What's happening is not a demographic cliff per se, but a geographic cliff.  Many southern states are consistently crushing the national averages.  People are not as tied to office locations, people are moving where they want to live and it shows up in the net domestic migration numbers.  Believe me there is no decline in college, high school or elementary age kids in Florida, Georgia, South or North Carolina.  They continue to build new schools - unheard of in the NE.  NY, NJ, NE, PA, MD have no growth or negative growth and they are at the head of the geographic cliff.    [/quote]

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