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As the population of high school graduates declines nationwide, Midwest and East Coast colleges are hoping to attract California students to keep their enrollment numbers steady....</p>
<p>After a decade of campus-crowding growth, the size of the nation's high school graduating class has begun to decline with this year's seniors, and is projected to drop 4.5% by 2014. Then, modest growth is expected to resume.</p>
<p>The change, however, is uneven across the country, with the deepest dips -- up to 20% over the next few years -- forecast for New England and Upper Midwest states, home to numerous colleges.</p>
<p>Schools from those regions are boosting recruiting in California and other populous states, including Texas, Florida and Arizona, and looking for more students overseas, especially from China and India.</p>
<p>The population trend "certainly concerns schools in the Midwest and the Northeast. And it will force many . . . to start recruiting outside of their traditional regions," said Tony Pals, a spokesman for the National Assn. of Independent Colleges and Universities...." Out-of-state</a> colleges boost recruiting efforts in California - Los Angeles Times</p>
<p>Does that mean that Western schools will also start recruiting in the Northeast? Or will the Northeast/Midatlantic kids be left in the dust? (for a change).</p>
<p>^^Negative. For the most part, the South and West is continuing to grow so competition will be remain high. OTOH, schools like USC are focusing on attracting internationals to broaden their student bodies.</p>
<p>bluebayou: Yea, I kinda knew that...just found it a little annoying though....so, we should move to the West Coast so D2 can be recruited at East Coast schools....JK....</p>
<p>I don't think Northeast/Midatlantic kids are at a disadvantage here. It's precisely because colleges in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Upper Midwest are facing a decline in the applicant pool in their home regions---traditionally their most fertile recruiting ground--that schools in those regions are now being forced to go farther afield to recruit. But the declining regional applicant pool should ease the admissions competition a bit for kids from the declining regions, who will still make up the bulk of admits at most of schools mentioned in the article. Just don't expect it to become any easier to get into HYPSM-level schools. It's the second- and third-tier schools that are going to be most desperate for kids to enroll.</p>