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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's why student who want to defer should not be allowed to do so.  They should have to reapply next year.  [/quote]

Yes because they haven't been screwed over enough this year.[/quote]

Other than missing graduation (which is boring AF anyway), how have they been more "screwed over" than the class of 2021? I would argue the juniors have it even worse. Many fewer times for testing. Missing out on the most important semester for grades into their transript--and now the 2020 class taking away possibly up to 20% of possible spots for top colleges next year. [/quote]

I have three teenagers.  One in college, one senior, and one sophomore. By far the worst hit is the senior, no comparison. They miss everything related to the end of school, including saying goodbye to their friends.  Yes, my Sophomore missed her spring sport which she was trying to be recruited and has to take two on-line AP Exams.  It is not a win for anyone but the enormity of disappointment is overwhelming for my senior. If she loses her summer job that will be a huge hit.  Her college has not announced that what they will do in Fall BUT they did tell her that if it is on-line, she will be able to defer. That is not normally an option.  I feel bad for the next two years of students applying to colleges, especially the juniors because unfortunately I do think they will be the toughest admissions class in quite a long time. So that sucks for them, but there are still plenty of options.  They will probably have a more mature outlook on life in the whole process because they have now lived through "anything can happen".  However, no class has it worse than the senior class of 2020.  I am sad for them and all teenagers but we will get through it.  [/quote]

Nope. The 2020 class can have some sentimentality over it, but the 2021 class is completely screwed by all the 2020 Mommies who are too scared to sent their kids and too weak to just say to them: It's not what you planned, tough luck. Imagine fi you did that, then your senior could have "a more mature outlook on life..." just like you expect from the 2021s. This thread makes me so upset, because it never occurred to me that the class of 2020 is going to so completely screw my junior. What a mess.[/quote]

Class of 2020 moms can sit down and shut up.  Their child got into college.  I don't want to hear how important mom thinks it is for their kid to walk across the stage.  Your kid doesn't care half as much as you!

For those of you who think they can make "multiple deposits" or whatever.  That is not how it works.  Nice try. [/quote] BS, my kid and every other kid cares about the end of the year celebrations as seniors.  What the juniors don't care about is mommy wanted them to go to an Ivy and now they are pouting that they are afraid they are robbed of the chance. Yea right, Boohoo, they cannot do some campus visits, you are comparing that to graduation?  It's the junior parents that are projecting -- guess what, your kid didn't want to take SATs 4 times to finally break 1400.  Super scores will be lower, less pressure on juniors. Nothing like what has been taken away from the seniors.[/quote]

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