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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many schools will go under between now and then.[/quote]
This is what many are predicting.[/quote]

But they will all be at the very bottom.  There will be exactly the same amount of competitiveness at the top -- probably even more.  Top in-state schools in particular.

There may be some relaxation at what is now the mid-level privates as they get more desperate for full pays, and some increased merit aid at the schools slightly above them.  That's the best you can hope for IMHO.  It will not be a return to 1966 admission rates.[/quote]

Not necessarily. Two examples of colleges struggling financially that are not at the very bottom: Earlham and Beloit, 80 and 82 respectively on USNews natl liberal arts list.[/quote]

Earlham isn't really struggling financially.  They just had very conservative advisory board members who raised the alarm about some operating budgets that were drifting up.  But they have a 400 million dollar endowment.  They --like Middlebury--just need to tighten their belts a bit.  These are not likely the colleges that will close.  
Beloit's endowment however is about 1/3 of the size of Earlham's--and is in a little tighter situation.  But it's unlikely they would close either.  There are hundreds of tiny colleges that aren't  on the Princeton Review/US News lists--those are the ones that are in most danger. [/quote]

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