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> US colleges have many students from foreign countries on visas. I wonder what the impact of the pandemic is on that segment of the student population.

The elephant in the room is that those foreign students are also the ones paying sticker price and subsidizing college for the other students, even at public schools.

From what I've seen , international students who are supposed to attend colleges in 2020 were affected the most:

* Some abandoned their international studies plan and attended local colleges instead.

* Some took a gap year to wait until 2021.

* A minority pushed on and took classes online until they're able to come to the US.

Certainly has to be a factor, but not many of them were headed to community college, which has seen the biggest drop.