Washington State's high school students snubbing public universities

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:

Washington's public four-year colleges are attracting fewer applications from the very people they were built to serve: the state's high school graduates.

Across the board, in-state applications are down at public colleges, from less than 2 percent at the University of Washington to 19 percent at Central Washington University.


But the reasons behind the drop -- and whether it reflects a continuing trend -- have left university officials without solid explanations. Some private colleges in the state saw a similar decline in in-state applicants, but others saw them surge.

Maybe some consumers are becoming "price sensitive" to higher tuitions.