If Colleges Remain On-Line Only

[Anonymous]

Kind of grateful my rising freshmen picked schools that are 99% residential so if they go back and forth over the next couple of years we will have a chance of getting a room and board refund.

[Anonymous]

My daughter is thinking about this with a group of rising senior friends and we support her. They need to get permission to live off campus since her SLAC limits it, though I’m thinking they may now welcome a few more students not in dorms. She is 21, has a car and is very responsible so I think it’s a great idea. The only down side is that her 17 year old sister will be sad if we have shelter in place again and she’s not here to hang out with.

I told her to call the housing department to explore the idea now. She has a group interested and rent in this small town is cheap.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

We've got 2 kids at 2 different colleges with leases signed for off-campus apartments. Both will be going back. I agree with posts regarding the college experience is more than the coursework. Hiding at home with mom and dad is no life for a 19 and 21 year old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've got 2 kids at 2 different colleges with leases signed for off-campus apartments. Both will be going back. I agree with posts regarding the college experience is more than the coursework. Hiding at home with mom and dad is no life for a 19 and 21 year old.

Np. I think you are right about college being more than academics but too judgemental when you say "hiding" at home with mom and dad is no life.

Not everyone can afford another apartment especially if the parents have lost their jobs. You do realize in th he past most people didnt move out of parents' home until marriage. I'm sure you are not suggesting that those teens had "no life".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've got 2 kids at 2 different colleges with leases signed for off-campus apartments. Both will be going back. I agree with posts regarding the college experience is more than the coursework. Hiding at home with mom and dad is no life for a 19 and 21 year old.

Np. I think you are right about college being more than academics but too judgemental when you say "hiding" at home with mom and dad is no life.

Not everyone can afford another apartment especially if the parents have lost their jobs. You do realize in th he past most people didnt move out of parents' home until marriage. I'm sure you are not suggesting that those teens had "no life".

What an odd response. What timeframe of teens are you defending from my judgement here? The 18th, 19th or 20th centuries? I was answering a post about 2020 college students' plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is thinking about this with a group of rising senior friends and we support her. They need to get permission to live off campus since her SLAC limits it, though I’m thinking they may now welcome a few more students not in dorms. She is 21, has a car and is very responsible so I think it’s a great idea. The only down side is that her 17 year old sister will be sad if we have shelter in place again and she’s not here to hang out with.

I told her to call the housing department to explore the idea now. She has a group interested and rent in this small town is cheap.

How easy is it? My dd is going to an (secular) lac that apparently forbids kids from living on campus unless they are married or have kids. Tuition is fine bc of merit but room and board will be a pain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've got 2 kids at 2 different colleges with leases signed for off-campus apartments. Both will be going back. I agree with posts regarding the college experience is more than the coursework. Hiding at home with mom and dad is no life for a 19 and 21 year old.

Np. I think you are right about college being more than academics but too judgemental when you say "hiding" at home with mom and dad is no life.

Not everyone can afford another apartment especially if the parents have lost their jobs. You do realize in th he past most people didnt move out of parents' home until marriage. I'm sure you are not suggesting that those teens had "no life".

What an odd response. What timeframe of teens are you defending from my judgement here? The 18th, 19th or 20th centuries? I was answering a post about 2020 college students' plans.

This is a privileged mindset. Most kids in this country commute to school.

[Anonymous]

DC was already planning to be off campus and had signed a lease through Dec 2020. I think there is a strong possibility he will go back in the Aug/Sept time frame if his friends also go back. Of course, it is dependent on what happens. I don't think of it as hiding out at our house, but that he is missing his friends. This is the first time he has had a core group of really good friends.

On Friday his school revealed part of their plan. They are in NY and university "opening" is in Phase 4. Phase 1 has not started in their region yet. "Opening" in Phase 4 means, larger classes online, classes 24 and smaller will meet in the larger classrooms. Every student tested before they comeback and then every two weeks (I am hoping the spit or finger prick ones and not the swab up the nose ones). Medical masks in the classrooms, cloth masks everywhere else on campus except their dorm room. Separate quarantine accommodations with academic help to keep up with classes. They have hired 3 people to do contact tracing. No more than 2 students per dorm room (they had quite a few triples). I don't know about the dining options- last year they started a take out option, so I suspect that would be expanded and made less individualized.

They had a HUGE (like 5x the normal) flu problem this past year 2019/2020 and I just wonder if it has already gone through part of the population.

I am hoping, at some point soon, that the antibody testing gets more accurate and becomes easily accessible too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid signed a lease for 2020-2021 in January or February. He will most likely move in to his apartment with his roommates and I'm hopeful that at least some of his classes will be in person at least to start the semester.

He's only two hours away so it's an easy trip if there is an issue.

I'm wondering if your son is one of my son's roommates - this sounds exactly like our situation!

That’s because it’s literally 99% of students at VT and more than half at JMU for sophomore year and up.

[Anonymous]

100 percent of my daughters Junior friends are going back in Fall. In fact the apartments are nearly sold out with no discount. Juniors and Seniors live off campus. They don’t care if college on line at all.

So don’t see point of shutting school. Wont solve anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100 percent of my daughters Junior friends are going back in Fall. In fact the apartments are nearly sold out with no discount. Juniors and Seniors live off campus. They don’t care if college on line at all.

So don’t see point of shutting school. Wont solve anything

Then you don’t understand, or have tried hard not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine is going to GMU, so we’re happy that home is a reasonable option.

I was just thinking that the unfortunate situation of my kid ending up with Mason as the only viable option might turn out to be a huge blessing come August.

[Anonymous]

No, we live being with out kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, we live being with out kids.

Do they live being with you?