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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Americans go abroad for college because (wait for it)

There is no room at American colleges.

Are you beginning to understand now? [/quote]
Here's some reading for you.
[url=https://www.cornellcollege.edu/board-of-trustees/Chronicle%20pre-meeting%20reading.pdf]The Great Enrollment Crash[/url] by Bucknell's chief enrollment officer as well as "‘Welcome to the Wild West: The Competition for College Applicants Just Intensified" by Eric Hoover which describes the great lengths to which colleges now must go to attract applicants.  This is an effect that starts with the colleges with the worst payoff/price ratio but you'd have to be naive to believe that there's no trickle down effect (or trickle up, as the case may be).
Here's a quote from the article:

[i]The handwriting was probably on the wall, as the national, first-year discount rate had already
crested the 50-percent mark; according to the National Association of College and University
Business Officers (NACUBO), it was 39 percent as recently as 2008. This steep rise is
significantly fueled by colleges that have adopted the airline pricing model: If the plane is going
to fly anyway (and if there are still spots open), no harm in getting even pennies on an otherwise
unsold ticket. For colleges discounting at or above the national figure, this is unlikely to be a
sustainable strategy. However, in the meantime, they are no doubt pulling students away from
colleges that expect full-pay or better-pay students to foot the true bill. [b]In short, price sensitivity
is a structural reality when supply (number of college beds and desks) is greater than demand.[/b][/i]

As a side note, some of the changes [url=https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/09/30/nacac-agrees-change-its-code-ethics]discussed there[/url] include 
- allowing incentives for EA/ED applicants
- allowing universities to pursue already committed students after May 1
- allowing universities to pursue transfer students if they previously applied

I'd actually be curious how often this occurs - did lots of kids get generous offers once on the waiting list in the summer months from a college that originally didn't accept them?
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