Colleges Guesstimate the Size of Their Freshmen Classes

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As reportd in an April 2009 article in US News Online,

Longmire and Company discovered that the enrollment

intentions of incoming students would drastically change by 12%

and those intentions of the returning students would drastically change by 10%. That is a large melt.

Mark Thompson of IA 1:32PM August 17, 2009

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