Yikes-one university considering January 2021 reopening

[Anonymous]

If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Because the schools won't allow them to defer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Because the schools won't allow them to defer.

Smart people will work around that. Be creative.

[Anonymous]

And the student will do what with their time exactly that would be more useful then continuing to educate themselves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Because the schools won't allow them to defer.

Smart people will work around that. Be creative.

Colleges aren't dumb either.

They're not going to allow an entire year of Freshmen to defer.
If this happens, what happens to the next year of kids?
Do they simply not admit 2021 grads?

They won't allow deferrals. I've read about it already within the past few days (forgetting where). They're going to prohibit gap years and deferrals.

[Anonymous]

Interesting, but what some mediocre school like this one does won’t start a trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are parents still paying 60K a year for college if all their kid is doing is online schooling?

Yes. Plus some of us are still paying for off campus housing.

And meanwhile the universities are losing a ton of money as well. They may be experiencing school online like the rest of the country, but they still have full access to top-notch faculty, resources, and their transcripts will still have the university on it. Stop acting like they paid for Georgetown and ended up at University of Phoenix.

[Anonymous]

COVID-19 is only going to hasten the demise of many colleges, especially SLACs, across the country. I'm anticipating a rash of closures over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Colleges have not technically closed.

The question is not whether or not colleges open in September; it's whether or not they begin the 2020-2021 academic year online or in-person. It's too early to predict what will happen, although I don't have my hopes up for in-person classes this Fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:COVID-19 is only going to hasten the demise of many colleges, especially SLACs, across the country. I'm anticipating a rash of closures over the summer.

+1. But more so LACs (regional, not selective), than SLACs (S stands for selective, tend to have higher demand and far bigger endowments).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Because the schools won't allow them to defer.

Which colleges, the top 50? Outside of that, most admit everyone with a pulse and a checkbook. If this happens, regional private colleges are going to be closing, for good, en masse. And regional public universities will suffer greatly, too -- families will just have kids take the same core courses online at local community college for 1/3 the tuition cost. Once you get used to that, why bother sending kid away to school in January? Just have them finish the first year... if not the second, too... at home for cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Because the schools won't allow them to defer.

Smart people will work around that. Be creative.

Colleges aren't dumb either.

They're not going to allow an entire year of Freshmen to defer.
If this happens, what happens to the next year of kids?
Do they simply not admit 2021 grads?

They won't allow deferrals. I've read about it already within the past few days (forgetting where). They're going to prohibit gap years and deferrals.

So don't defer. Find another way to take a semester off. I'm sure if you think hard enough, you can figure it out. I'm not going to spell it out for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the colleges choose to not open until January, most of the freshman students will defer. Why pay 60K to take online classes when you can work or take community college classes part time for much cheaper.

It won't work. Colleges will open in Sept

Because the schools won't allow them to defer.

Smart people will work around that. Be creative.

Colleges aren't dumb either.

They're not going to allow an entire year of Freshmen to defer.
If this happens, what happens to the next year of kids?
Do they simply not admit 2021 grads?

They won't allow deferrals. I've read about it already within the past few days (forgetting where). They're going to prohibit gap years and deferrals.

Some of the top colleges have encouraged gap years and have pretty open gap year policies. Listen to this podcast w/Dean of Admissions at Davidson where he basically says they will grant more gap year requests this year: https://www.davidson.edu/news/2020/04/02/webcast-what-coronavirus-means-college-admissions. They'll just take more kids off the waitlist to compensate.
https://www.davidson.edu/news/2020/04/02/webcast-what-coronavirus-means-college-admissions