“Jim Hull, senior policy analyst at the National School Board Association’s Center for Public Education, says their 2010 report shows that it was no more difficult for most students to get into college in 2004 than it was in 1990’s.”
Good God man! The millennials - the offspring of the American BabyBoom generation- were just being born in the late 1990’s! And did not start to apply to colleges until the middle of the last decade, after 2004.
The demographics f how many students were applying to colleges started to really accelerate after 2005 AND, in addition, thousands of the smartest Asian students also started to apply to US colleges at the same time.
The result?
LOTS more applicants for the same # of openings at US colleges. And that trend has only increased.
Thats the reality.