Why College Freshman Enrollment Declined and What it Could Mean for Students

December 9, 2024 – In a U.S. News & World Report article about the possible reasons for the decline in freshman enrollment, Shannon Vasconcelos, senior director of college finance at Bright Horizons College Coach, shares her thoughts on why. 

"Students were not able to access the aid that they needed to attend college in any kind of acceptable time frame," says Shannon Vasconcelos, senior director of college finance at Bright Horizons College Coach, a college admissions consulting firm. "I think we lost a lot of students somewhere along the line in that process. They got frustrated. Eventually they gave up."

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