<p>College seats will remain filled in 18 years due to supply and demand pressures, but if U.S. primary and secondary education continues its slide in funding and quality, those seats will increasingly be filled by foreigners, especially those with superior science backgrounds. We’ll have to wait and see if our rejection of science takes hold (re, e.g., climate change and evolution), causing long-term drop in our economic power, with foreigners better able to afford our likely still-superior colleges and universities.</p>