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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1790974" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>More for financial reasons than anything else, but UI has expanded their class sizes and remains the most in-state heavy of all the Big Ten schools. Over the past five years or so the ever-escalating crunch on Chicago suburban high school kids has abated somewhat.</p><p></p><p>But in general this is not a UI-specific thing, this is just a tale of the higher ed industry and the cultural realities of increased competition of college admissions in America.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad UI has expanded enrollment, that's the right thing to do even if it may be for the "wrong" reasons.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So just to be clear on a factual point using that data, of 34,942 enrolled undergraduates this fall, 5,312 are international students, so 15%.</p><p></p><p>In Fall 2014 (chosen because that was the last class before Tim Killeen became UI President who has been public about wanting to increase enrollment) there were 32,579 total undergrads of which 5,332 were international, a bit over 16%.</p><p></p><p>Not super dramatic change, but one way to say it is that there are now 20 fewer spots for international HS students and nearly 2,500 more spots for domestic HS students.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And just to say it out loud I don't think any of this has anything to do with our football attendance issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1790974, member: 746137"] More for financial reasons than anything else, but UI has expanded their class sizes and remains the most in-state heavy of all the Big Ten schools. Over the past five years or so the ever-escalating crunch on Chicago suburban high school kids has abated somewhat. But in general this is not a UI-specific thing, this is just a tale of the higher ed industry and the cultural realities of increased competition of college admissions in America. I'm glad UI has expanded enrollment, that's the right thing to do even if it may be for the "wrong" reasons. So just to be clear on a factual point using that data, of 34,942 enrolled undergraduates this fall, 5,312 are international students, so 15%. In Fall 2014 (chosen because that was the last class before Tim Killeen became UI President who has been public about wanting to increase enrollment) there were 32,579 total undergrads of which 5,332 were international, a bit over 16%. Not super dramatic change, but one way to say it is that there are now 20 fewer spots for international HS students and nearly 2,500 more spots for domestic HS students. And just to say it out loud I don't think any of this has anything to do with our football attendance issues. [/QUOTE]
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