- The number of high school graduates is declining for the last few years
- Strong students are increasingly likely to attend a school in the top 150 colleges.
- There is a trend toward Universities and away from LACs.
- High school students are becoming less religious.
All of that would seem to put MSM in a position of being likely to have declining overall class quality. I think they had the right idea in thinking they need to change to stay relevant. However hiring Alfred E Newman to do it was a bad idea.