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But for now, here's the tl;dr: Colleges and universities in states that are making themselves famous for abortion restrictions, a lack of gun restrictions, and an intention to roll back rights for the LGBTQ+ community should probably be very, very concerned about enrollments.

Now, an important question is how aware students are of these policies as they're evaluating their school options. We didn't ask that question, and I suppose we should have. We'll follow up with some qualitative research to find out more.

We wrote up the top-level findings and posted them (with charts! ooh!) here: medium.com/the-difference-en… There's also a little goodie in there for you, @profgalloway - about how much the school's sports program matters. It might surprise you!

And while the vast majority of our sample identified as cis-het, Women were 2.5 times more likely than men to say a state planning to limit LGBTQ+ rights would make them highly likely to reject a college (48% v. 18%). Less than 4% of them said it was not at all likely.

Women were almost twice as likely as men to say that a state that allows permit-less concealed-carry would make them highly likely to reject a college (40% v. 23%). Just over 3% said it was not at all likely to cause them to reject a school.

But here's the thing - gun violence is also a very big deal, especially to college-bound women. Women were twice as likely as men to say that a state that allows gun ownership without a background check would make them highly likely to reject a college (53% v. 25%)

Only 7% of women said a 15 week ban would be not at all likely to cause them to reject a school; less than 4% said a 6 week ban would be not at all likely. This data is only directional, but the smarter money is probably on @KatyTurNBC's hypothesis.

So, @profgalloway 48% of women said they would be highly likely to reject a school in a state where abortion is illegal after 6 weeks, and 40% said they would reject a school in a state where it was banned after 15 weeks.

The weighted average of responses from participants who are actively weighing their options of which schools to apply to or attend listed gun policies in the top 2 slots, followed by 6 wk abortion bans and then anti-LGBTQ+ agendas, as reasons to reject a college.

We listed 7 policies that are matters of public controversy - 2 abortion policies (6 wk & 15 wk bans), 2 gun policies (no background checks, no permit for concealed carry), anti-LGBTQ+ policies, marijuana criminalization & the death penalty. Which would make you reject a school?