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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to freak out any junior parents but my kid who got into their first choice ivy is now insisting on a gap year. School is allowing it but we have to decide soon. I don’t like the gap year idea but kid is being incredibly stubborn. Some of kid’s friends are seriously considering a gap year too. What a mess![/quote]
NP here.  This is interesting.  I had a talk with a mom of two seniors today, and they were thinking about it too, but she said she's leaning toward having them go.  She doesn't want them around the house another year, playing video games, and she thinks that it will be hard for them to get jobs, because there are so many older more experienced people now that need jobs.  If I may ask,

1) Does your kid have to apply to receive a gap year, or just ask and get it?

2) What would your kid be doing during that year? [/quote]

Yes students must apply/ask for a gap year. Colleges are under no obligation to grant one to all who ask. Some ask what the students’ plan for the year is when the request is made. [/quote]

All schools are granting gap year requests - how can you not?  As a parent I would be concerned  - what are the kids going to do for that year - travel is out. Working? 30 million Americans have applied for unemployment insurance.

I think the million international students at colleges and universities is really the game-changer here.  Most are full pay plus extra - so most are wealthy - would you send your child (or send your child back) to a country where COVID 19 is not in control, armed protesters stormed a government building to demand everything be opened up and Donald Trump is president? A big maybe. I have a high school junior so I guess we have to plan for two scenarios - the BEST one - there is an effective treatment and vaccine and the world economy bounces right back and the hostility against China dissipates -  then a bulge of college kids heading to school in 2021 which means my son's safety schools [b]might[/b] be a reach.  In the second scenario, one of the four variables listed is still not resolved and then we need to plan for that chaos.

I think early decision is one strategy we will think about.

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Your post makes no sense.  [b]You think that people on campuses are rallying against the Chinese?  [/b]Maybe in your dreams. This thread gets more and more bizarre, and facts be damned, apparently.

Look, [b]there are only going to be so many spots for deferrals and transfers. Period.[/b]  If you were a President of a college or university, you would know this.  They are not broadcasting it. [/quote]

I don't think there are people "rallying" against Chinese students, but I do know that the amount of $$ the Chinese and other governments direct toward our colleges and professors was undergoing increased scrutiny, even before COVID.  I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention, but maybe the pandemic just has everyone distracted. A Harvard professor was arrested for taking money from the Chinese government to open a lab there (in Wuhan, no less), and not disclosing it.  The Administration is starting to enforce the law that requires colleges to report their donations from foreign countries, one which they'd been ignoring.  It's billions of dollars.  The pressure to stop taking this $$ will only build, and make the international student situation, and the colleges' finances, even more complicated.

According to U.S. News & WR:

For example, from January 2012 to June 2018, 15 colleges and universities reported receiving $15.5 million from Hanban, the headquarters of Confucius Institutes, which are schools and programs funded by the Chinese government that commonly teach language and culture but are controlled by high-ranking officials in Beijing and widely considered a propaganda machine.But when Senate investigators requested financial records from 100 U.S. schools, it found that Hanban had actually contributed $113 million to U.S. schools during that time period – more than seven times the amount originally reported.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-02-13/colleges-and-universities-fail-to-report-billions-from-china-qatar-saudi-arabia-and-others

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/805548681/harvard-yale-targets-of-education-department-probe-into-foreign-donations

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/14/806128410/harvard-professors-arrest-raises-questions-about-scientific-openness[/quote]

Thanks for posting this - the Ivy League never fails to disappoint. So corrupt. [/quote]

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