https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/international-students-us-colleges-trump.html?_r=0
Sounds bad, doesn't it? The good news is that the survey cited in the article for the 40% figure also reports that 35% of respondent colleges experienced and increase, and 26% reported no change. http://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-...ion/intl-survey-results-released.pdf?sfvrsn=0 This goes unmentioned in the Times article. Note that the sample size is 250 colleges, so a difference of 39% (the actual number reported in the study, not 40%) vs. 35% is likely not statistically significant.
The survey did not report on whether overall applications are up or down, just the number of institutions reporting their international applicant pool to be up or down.
So a more accurate headline would have been "Amid 'Trump Effect,' Most Colleges See the Same or Higher Numbers of Foreign Applications."
This is really dishonest journalism.
Sounds bad, doesn't it? The good news is that the survey cited in the article for the 40% figure also reports that 35% of respondent colleges experienced and increase, and 26% reported no change. http://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-...ion/intl-survey-results-released.pdf?sfvrsn=0 This goes unmentioned in the Times article. Note that the sample size is 250 colleges, so a difference of 39% (the actual number reported in the study, not 40%) vs. 35% is likely not statistically significant.
The survey did not report on whether overall applications are up or down, just the number of institutions reporting their international applicant pool to be up or down.
So a more accurate headline would have been "Amid 'Trump Effect,' Most Colleges See the Same or Higher Numbers of Foreign Applications."
This is really dishonest journalism.
