<p>Just to echo SirGecko (wow, that rhymes!):</p>
<p>"Colleges and universities are anxiously taking steps to address a projected drop in the number of high school graduates in much of the nation starting next year and a dramatic change in the racial and ethnic makeup of the student population, a phenomenon expected to transform the country’s higher education landscape, educators and analysts said. After years of being overwhelmed with applicants, higher education institutions will over the next decade recruit from a pool of public high school graduates that will experience:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>A projected national decline of roughly 10 percent or more in non-Hispanic white students, the population that traditionally is most likely to attend four-year colleges.</p></li>
<li><p>A double-digit rise in the proportion of minority students – especially Hispanics – who traditionally are less likely to attend college and to obtain loans to fund education.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Despite those obstacles, minority enrollment at undergraduate schools is expected to rise steadily, from 30 percent in 2004 to about 37 percent in 2015, some analysts project. "</p>
<p>[Population</a> Shift Sends Universities Scrambling - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902065.html]Population”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902065.html)</p>