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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is a rising freshman at a school in California.  We have all thought so much about what to do but there is so much uncertainty.

DH and I really want her to defer a year.  She isn’t interested but we are wondering whether we should just make that decision for her.  It doesn’t go along with the way we have parented her but the money is our concern more than hers and she doesn’t really know what she will miss out on even if the school manages to keep kids on campus.  She hasn’t ever been to college to understand how important the freshman year social bonding is.

She was thinking about staying home for fall to save money but that seems the worst of both worlds because she will miss out on meeting the freshmen who came in the fall and have to join in late.[/quote]

I totally get why you want her to defer. DS got into his dream school. He also got a full scholarship at the flagship state university. We made the difficult decision to let him accept his dream school, knowing that we have to defer retirement indefinitely in order to make this happen. He had anyway planned a gap year. But we have told him that if covid isn't over by next year and colleges aren't fully open, we would be happy for him to take another gap year. (Dream school is okay with this and two gap years are common in our community.) I cannot see paying 75K+ or 55K+ for a year of online learning with little opportunity to meet classmates and make connections. But even if he had been going to totally free flagship state U, I would regret that he was missing the opportunity to have a real college experience. Better to have the experience later than to miss out on it.[/quote]

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