They will not say to their children, 'No, you cannot have an education. Margot Valdivia, the center's director, says she's seen a significant decline in the numbers of both new and continuing Korean students. We're down from 143 students to about 70. Enrollment rates for students from virtually all other parts of the globe are up slightly. Reports from around the country seem to bear out this assessment.
Singer offers a similar assessment.
For the most part, he adds, those who have sought special arrangements have not been confronting personal financial crises. Those indicators, however, are by no means conclusive. Similarly, Khan says the total number of applications for admission from international students thus far is identical to the number from this time a year ago. Moreover, the number of applicants from Korea, whose economy has been among the hardest hit, seems unaffected. But it is unknown how many of those applications were submitted prior to the economic trouble.