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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me why people are saying that college applicants are declining but in other threads people are talking about a demographic bubble that won’t start decreasing until 2026 or so?  Which is it?[/quote]

Colleges have 1MM fewer students today vs 2013.  You can easily Google that.

This is primarily due to fewer HS grads attending due to cost and seeing so many underemployed college grads.  The demographic decline I think technically starts with the class of 2025 and the accelerates with the classes of 2026+.  A byproduct of the Great Recession of 2008 and beyond.

The number of applications per kid has spike due to the common app and the internet making it easier to apply.  So there is a divergence between number of applicants and total applications.

However, all these extra applications are going to top 100 schools for the most part.

In the case of WVU, I believe the school has dropped from 29,000 students to 21,000 (from the article).  WVU falls into the 3900 schools that will see reduced demand unless they do something drastic like make it free for instate…copy what GA and FL are doing with scholarships.  Problem is the state of WV doesn’t have the resources of FL or GA.[/quote]

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