re: Mizzou fans, are you worried about your school?

Enrollment numbers were a perfect storm. The protests certainly hurt, and I'm sure there are lots of students who didn't enroll because of this, but border states are, all of a sudden, doing a lot better job keeping their kids within their borders. Illinois (specifically University of) had crazy high tuition rates and very strict admission standards, even for in-state residents, and so it was cheaper for someone from Chicago to go to Mizzou and pay out of state tuition than it was to go to UofI. Illinois, and Arkansas to a lesser extent, have done a great job recently siphoning off students who would have gone to Mizzou in years past (for reasons that have nothing to do with the protests).

Mizzou always expected the student boom to slow down eventually, but obviously not to the extent that happened this year. I think MU will be fine, but it's going to take several years of growth to get back to where we were this time last year.