Site Redesign Resolution

We are redesigning our site. The new design looks really good, but because of all the information we need to put on the site, the redesign is for a minimum resolution of 1024X768. So for people who use a lower resolution, they'd have to scroll a bit to see the whole screen. How much of a problem is this?

Our site is for a teen/college audience, and the designer insists that for almost everybody in this age range, they'd be using the bigger resolutions and that basically this is a non-issue. But I'm worried that some people will be frustrated when they get to our site and are unable to see 100% of the content on the page. Am I right to be worried or is the designer correct that this is a problem that will only affect a very tiny % of our users?

 

 

 

 

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