<p>This is a 2-part question.
First, what generation do you consider us to be part of? The Millennial Generation? (I'm a '95er)
Secondly, are your parents Baby Boomers? I was just thinking about it, and my parents are some of the last Baby Boomers. I've also been classified by wikipedia as an "Echo-Boomer", because our population size is abnormally large, just like the Baby Boomers. Do you think college acceptance rates will start getting higher in the next 10-15 years as there are less kids to apply? I'm a little jealous of these kids in the next generation :p</p>
<p>Nice logic. +1</p>
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It is nice logic… The generation below us is smaller than our generation, ergo when they get to college there will be less of them to apply. Thanks anyway though, the sass was appreciated.
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<p>You could call it fluctuating if it was random. This isn’t random though. The Baby Boomers were a larger population, then after them the Baby Busters had a smaller population. Now that they Baby Boomers are almost done reproducing there will be a small population.</p>
<p>It’s almost a 5% population difference between 15-19 and 0-4. That seems significant enough to me. Also, you can’t be sure the amount of people going to college will keep rising, it has to plateau eventually.</p>
<p>I consider myself a millennial because I grew up in times that fit the characteristics. The first time I used the Internet was using an AOL dial-up connection on Windows 95, then technology advanced quickly throughout my childhood and adolescent years. Revolutions like social networking, iPods, and Smartphones happened during our formative years. The music I grew up with (though I was always more into rock) evolved from N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys to that garbage kids listen to now. I hate to bring it up, but 9/11 and growing up during the ‘War on Terror’ times has to do with it as well (a generation is always defined partially by their wars, for my parents it was Vietnam, and for my Grandparents it was World War II).</p>
<p>It’s really weird to think about how much has changed in the last 18 years. I can remember my first cell-phone being a flip phone and the first time we had broadband Internet, I think those who are children now who already have that stuff fall into another generation, though I’m not sure what you would call it. As for my parents being ‘baby boomers,’ they were both born right at the end of what is considered that era, so I suppose they would be, but really as the birth rate was leveling back out.</p>
<p>I was born in '96, and I’m part of the so-called “iGeneration.”</p>