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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is very interesting that some schools are having difficulty with cases while others have had so few. It would be an interesting study of the whys. [/quote]

[b]I’d guess that the more selective the school the more serious (and intelligent) the students which should translate into superior outcomes.  Big state U.....not so much[/b]. [/quote]

DP.

Bit of snobbery and some assumptions showing there, PP. All the selectivity in the world won't help if you have a lot of students who live off-campus and do not practice very rigorous and consistent masking and distancing and generally work hard to keep themselves infection-free.

Even the most intelligent students are still 18-22 or so, and many are going to be book-smart and not necessarily smart about life. Or like a lot of young adults that age, they feel (even if their logical selves say otherwise) that they're invincibly healthy. And even these smart young adults might not be great at assessing their personal risk very well. Even if they can assess risk beautifully on a spreadsheet in some stats class or whatever.

Before you leap back in to crow, "Your kid must be at Big State U! Sour grapes!" -- because I know how the DCUM hive mind works like that -- my kid is at a small private college that currently has excellent control over the virus after most kids have been back on campus for three weeks and some for longer. And I [i]still[/i] don't care to make any assumptions about what is happening or what will happen there, despite the fact these are serious, intelligent students who are doing well so far.[/quote]

Eh, let's wait and see what happens.  So far it looks like the big state schools down south and the Indianas and Wisconsins of the world aren't doing particularly well.  I don't think it has to do with off campus housing, more about how serious the students are about their studies.  [/quote]

You missed the point, or choose to ignore it. Students can be serious about their studies and still not good at understanding their personal risk or adhering to precautions. You seem to want to prove that the "smart kids" are going to be fine while kids at big state universities are by definition not serious students. Wow, snobbery indeed. I agree that large schools are toast re: Covid, but don't see why you're so invested in the narrative that it's because the kids are not serious as students. It's about huge population size and inability to handle testing, tracing and quarantining. There are serious students even at Big State U. It's like you're hoping the virus will cull out the "non-serious" students....[/quote]

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