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Thanks for your insight. I think my question is still unanswered, however. If more kids go to SUNY, less kids are going somewhere else (unless there were just

by endtime 18y ago

Thanks for your insight. I think my question is still unanswered, however. If more kids go to SUNY, less kids are going somewhere else (unless there were just a lot more kids born 18 years ago than 19). So where are less kids going? Alternatively, if there are less jobs out there, perhaps people are going to college rather than work right out of high school. Anyone know? I'm genuinely curious.

dantheman 18y ago
In general graduate school enrollments go up during bad economic times. The salary you would earn in the workforce is lower so the opportunity cost of grad school is less.
omnivore 18y ago
If more kids go to SUNY, fewer kids are going to pricey liberal arts colleges like Ithaca, Hobart & William Smith or out of state public schools in Jersey or Connecticut. They probably didn't get offered any academic aid at those private schools, they just might have been accepted and that's it. Pretty much everyone who was going to school before, still does. It's not a spike in the number of undergraduates, it's a shift in where they'll go.