College Freshman Enrollment Stats: White enrollment fell by 5% and Black enrollment plummeted 16.9%

[RamsayBolton]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/04/freshmen-college-enrollment-falls-fafsa-failures-to-blame-experts-say.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Last year, 45% of college applicants reported frustrations with the process and 12% said they ultimately chose a community college, technical school or other alternative because of their FAFSA experience, according to Jenzabar/Spark451′s college-bound student survey. The higher education marketing firm polled more than 5,400 recent high school graduates in September.

“We remain committed to helping students get the financial aid they need to pursue a college education and are thankful for the guidance counselors, financial aid professionals and the network of organizations and individuals who dedicated tremendous amounts of time, energy, and expertise to navigate this year’s college and financial aid application processes,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education said.

The Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action was also “a likely contributing factor,” Kantrowitz said.

The affirmative action ban may have especially impacted the enrollment of underrepresented minority students at the most selective colleges, he said.

Although freshmen enrollment declined across all racial groups, at highly selective colleges the differences were striking: White enrollment fell by 5% and Black enrollment plummeted 16.9%, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found.

Some of these students may have enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities or minority serving institutions, Kantrowitz said, “others may have shifted enrollment to community colleges, which are lower cost, due to delays in receiving financial aid offers.”

Meanwhile, tuition and fees plus room and board for a four-year private college averaged $58,600 in the 2024-25 school year, up from $56,390 a year earlier. At four-year, in-state public colleges, it was $24,920, up from $24,080, the College Board found.

a lot of shyt adding up against future generations

we had a chance to reverse it but America didnt want that

 

[Neuromancer]

Get a trade the unions will take care of you.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

so what they're saying is...school is more expensive and Gen Z are opting not to go into crippling debt for it

 

[Neuromancer]

so what they're saying is...school is more expensive and Gen Z are opting not to go into crippling debt for it

They wouldn't be able to get jobs to pay for it anyway. I always wondered what they were doing for money?
Apparently it's not trades and being an entrepreneur requires money.

 

[Wild self]

Lack of critical thinking will be the death of a society.

 

[Remote]

Waiting for coli conservatives and both siders to explain how this is a good thing.

Voting doesn't matter, right....

 

[Bunchy Carter]

This data is from last year.....Bidens America

 

[Roger king]

People dont understand or comprehend what this even means, less black people getting into colleges and universities means less black people in the work and labor force and less chance to get employed and get into the middle class, meaning more black people in poverty and working menial jobs and low paying jobs just as the conservative right wing have always wanted in their utopia, they envision a society where black people are at the bottom of the food chain and are in not in any position of power or authority and cant credibly challenge them on policy and societal issues and all this is because of donald trump and the three right wing supreme court justices he appointed, if clinton had won the 2016 election this simply wouldn't have happened and black numbers in colleges and universities would have continue growing in strong numbers because no liberal justice is dismantling affirmative action, that there is a fundamental and tangible difference between both political parties and how they see policies that benefit black people or help black folks in any way, and that is why both side charlatans who pretend this two parties are the same are so dangerous for the community.

 

[levitate]

Education needs to be the primary focus of every Black family.

 

[RamsayBolton]

so what they're saying is...school is more expensive and Gen Z are opting not to go into crippling debt for it

this is the most optimistic possible read on black people opting out at 3x the rates of white people

 

[tay1]

Expect an increase in foreign enrollment to these universities.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Alarms need to be be going off. Literacy rates slipping and college attendance plummeting nearly 20% is alarming.

The future is not looking good

 

[Rekkapryde]

Expect an increase in foreign enrollment to these universities.

Maybe initially but once Murica sees all the indians and asians at their previous schools, they gon crack down on dem too. Belee Dat Homie!

 

[Rekkapryde]

Alarms need to be be going off. Literacy rates slipping and college attendance plummeting nearly 20% is alarming.

The future is not looking good

 

[TEH]

Don’t worry about that, theColi told me that only chumps and uncs go to college.