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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the president weren’t an idiot they could just make up for these shortfalls with International students.[/quote]

And exactly what changes in immigration policy that our "idiot president" is proposing or implementing affects the number of international students? [/quote]

[b]Since Trump became the nominee, the rise of white supremacists and xenophobia has led to a drop in international student enrollment at US colleges. Unfortunately, Canadian universities may start to see this as well after their elections.[/quote][/b]

Sorry t[b]he facts don't match what you would like to believe, but 2019 was a record year for international students, topping off at 1.09 million foreign students[/b].[/quote]

NP: That's the 2018 numbers (2019 aren't out yet), but there's been a slowing in the growth rate of international students  in 2015/16 the percent change was 7%, in 2016-17 it was down to 3% and in 2018-19 it was down by 1/2 again to 1.5%.  So the growth is definitely stalling, and applications are down further--with schools accepting higher balances.  So while PP was incorrect to say there was a drop--you are disingenuous to say it is a [b]"record year"[/b] when growth rates are clearly stalling--yes by the flat numbers every year is a record year, but the trend line isn't looking good.[/quote]

"Record year":  https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/2018/11/open-doors-report-a-record-high-number-of-international-students[/quote]

You didn't understand my comment.Every year for the past decade and a half has been a "record year" for international students because they are growing population.  But that growth rate has been being cut in half in from 2015-2016, and half again in 2018-2019.  People who seriously analyze data don't look at raw numbers when dealing with growing populations they look at trends. The growth rate is stalling. (It was disingenuous for the dhs to report it this way also). [/quote]

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