<p>Are you suggesting that the percentage of high school graduates going to college is declining? I haven’t seen anything to suggest that. I will grant that my phrase “steady increase in the percentage” was ambiguous, because the rate of increase may have been slowing (I don’t know). But at least through 2009 everything I have seen indicated continuous year-on-year increases, and especially among Hispanic kids, who are the fastest-growing population group.</p>
<p>We agree completely on ED/EA not changing the number of seats or the number of kids who get to go where they want. I think the percentage of kids who get to go where they want has declined precipitously over the past generation, because more and more kids have been induced to want the same brand names. Of course, the absolute number of kids who get to go to, say, Harvard, remains pretty constant from year to year.</p>