Applications down at Mizzou

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Another update and response from the Administration.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/mu-reports-fewer-students-applying-for-fall/article_3159fc14-b57c-11e5-8dfd-6788d5b4560e.html

Applications from black students, however, have not dropped 19 percent, as has been reported by some news media. The figure is actually about 3.3 percent, according to the MU News Bureau.
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The report attributes much of the decline to out-of-state residents, half of whom lived in Illinois. Non-residents made up 51 percent of the total. Residential applications have decreased by 9.8 percent since last year.

“It is very early in the year to make predictions on application numbers,” May said. “We’ve anticipated a decline in numbers due to decreases in the number of high school graduates throughout the Midwest and increased competition, especially in the Chicago market.”

Other factors are increased competition for new students, especially in the Chicago area; declining numbers of high school students in MU’s “top feeder states” due to lower birth rates 18 years ago and migration to southern states, May said.