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[quote=Anonymous]Parent of a 2020 HS grad who went to Oberlin. I’d probably didn’t pay enough attention attention to financial health, and we got lucky. Oberlin poured mo year into getting kids back in campus safely.  They went to 3 semesters. Every kid was put in a single without the room rate increasing, they tested, and they put so much money into making the Conservatory safe (ie, wind instruments and vocal students able to perform safely) also, into making hybrid classes accessible and making their hotel a quarantine dorm.  They were able to do this because they drew down on their endowment— which is there for emergencies.

Every single one of my kid’s classes was fully in person or hybrid (1/2 the class in person each class period).  They had virtually no COVID spread.  (There one outbreak was Omicron as kids were leaving for winter break in 2021j.

Then I started looking at colleges with my second kid. I was surprised how many of decent SLACs didn’t even try to get kids on campus in fall 2020 and sometimes for the whole year. It really drove home to me that money can matter. [/quote]

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