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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools

The Hechinger Report

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Fauci said he’s gotten hundreds of letters from people telling him they want to practice medicine.

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The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy 

The Hechinger Report

Thats because the current class of high school seniors is the last before a long decline begins in the number of 18-year-olds the traditional age of students when they enter college. There will soon be many more such scenes, a preponderance of evidence suggests. Demographers say it will finally arrive in the fall of this year.

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