A slightly lower proportion of high school seniors attending school in October  1973 were planning to attend college after graduation than were seniors enrolled a year earlier--42 percent in 1973 compared with 45 percent in 1972. The difference between the 1972 and the 1973 figures was statistically significant with 90 percent probability. The decline in the proportion of seniors who had definite plans to enter college is consistent with a decline in college participation rates among 18- and 19-year-olds during the past four years.¹ The proportion of students who plan to or who may enter vocational or trade schools has not changed measurably between these two years; however, the proportion of seniors who indicated that they had no plans to enter either college or postsecondary schools after high school graduation has increased.

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¹ School Enrollment in the United States, Current Population Reports, Series P-20, No. 261.