<p>Momofnj–You know what IS happening, though–</p>
<p>Colleges in the US are seeing the population trend, which is that numbers of college-age kids are going to be declining. The Baby Boom’s boomlet is drying up. So they will be competing for the 18 yr old bodies that remain.</p>
<p>The Ivies & their ilk are not going to have any trouble filling their classrooms—it is the 2nd & 3rd tier schools that will be fighting for those kids. So, yes, we are going to see LACs and state universities, too, recruiting abroad. Those kids pay full ride, out of state tuition. Instate residents pay the instate rate, and some of them qualify for special tuition rates for top students, too. </p>
<p>As to private schools–well the foreign students still don’t qualify for US aid such as Pell Grants, etc. So they will be paying full ride with no time spent on them in the fin aid office. </p>
<p>So, yeah, you’ll be seeing more foreign students on the campuses in the future. But they’ll be filling seats that might have gone empty–and they are helping to pay for whatever aid the other kids are receiving from the schools!</p>