Only 32 students from the United States are selected for the Rhodes Scholarship each year. This year, that includes a 2020 graduate of Brevard High School.
Yeonsoo Go was detained and sent to a federal detention facility in Louisiana after attending a visa hearing in New York. She was released five days later.
As a growing number of the wealthiest US colleges capitulate in their battles with the Trump administration, the strain from lost and frozen federal funding is putting pressure on the remaining holdouts to cut a deal.
Data modeling shows 150,000 fewer students may enroll in U.S. higher education due to visa challenges. New international enrollments in the U.S. could drop by as many as 150,000 students in the next year, according to scenario modeling by NAFSA, the association of international educators, and JB International.