The University of Colorado at Boulder announced an increase of 33 percent in the number of hopeful applicants for the next freshmen class.
They would like to attribute that to finally accepting the Common Application and the fact that CU recruiters went to an additional 120 high schools the previous year.
We all know that a 43 percent increase in applications from out of state students and a 65 percent increase in prospective international students has a little (okay, a lot) to do with marijuana’s new status.
Think about it; there are basically four places in the world where weed is legal, not just decriminalized: Uruguay, Holland, Washington and Colorado. That is a pretty huge deal.
And because all of the surrounding area in the US still keeps pot illegal, Colorado has a huge arbitrage advantage compared to the rest of American colleges.
According to Kevin Maclennan, the director of the admissions office, the school has no idea what impact legal weed has on the number of applicants or any way of figuring it out. They would prefer to pretend that their outreach is what’s driving the increased traffic.
“I don’t know,” MacLennan said of the marijuana issue. “One of the things is we’re not getting a lot of questions from families about that. We don’t have any mechanism of tracking that. I just don’t know.” Huffington Post
