Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a guess, but I imagine admission offices might have some hard number of deferments they are not willing to go over. First come, first served sort of approach. Those 2020 who want to defer should get that done ASAP.

Hopefully we'll know more next week perhaps, for schools with May 1 deadlines.

I was speaking with a relative about this. She is a VP for a very well-known and respected university with a >10% acceptance rate. The colleges and universities will only allow a limited number of deferrals. It is a decision they make for financial reasons. Like all businesses, they need the revenue for this upcoming year, not the year after. They aren't going to hold a vast number of student slots open for 1.5 years from now. That would be like Amazon saying, 'Sure, it's fine. We'll hold your TP for you and deliver it in 1.5 years when you're ready to pay.' Nope, not gonna happen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a guess, but I imagine admission offices might have some hard number of deferments they are not willing to go over. First come, first served sort of approach. Those 2020 who want to defer should get that done ASAP.

Hopefully we'll know more next week perhaps, for schools with May 1 deadlines.

I was speaking with a relative about this. She is a VP for a very well-known and respected university with a >10% acceptance rate. The colleges and universities will only allow a limited number of deferrals. It is a decision they make for financial reasons. Like all businesses, they need the revenue for this upcoming year, not the year after. They aren't going to hold a vast number of student slots open for 1.5 years from now. That would be like Amazon saying, 'Sure, it's fine. We'll hold your TP for you and deliver it in 1.5 years when you're ready to pay.' Nope, not gonna happen.

There are lots of kids on the waitlist who will pay now.

Anonymous wrote:Actually this might work out well for my junior. She was thinking of a gap year because she has little idea of what she wants to study and wants to have more purpose when she goes, more maturity to handle the workload and deadlines. Doesn’t want to spend the money we have for college spinning her wheels and having to go longer, spending more money, possibly incurring loans because of it. We were already discussing this as a serious option and for her to take some community college courses to keep a toe in, try out different subjects, decide what to major in. Now with all the upheaval, it will be a much more common thing to happen, our current juniors and seniors taking a gap year or starting locally due to finances as the admissions crisis works itself out over the next couple of years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a guess, but I imagine admission offices might have some hard number of deferments they are not willing to go over. First come, first served sort of approach. Those 2020 who want to defer should get that done ASAP.

Hopefully we'll know more next week perhaps, for schools with May 1 deadlines.

I was speaking with a relative about this. She is a VP for a very well-known and respected university with a >10% acceptance rate. The colleges and universities will only allow a limited number of deferrals. It is a decision they make for financial reasons. Like all businesses, they need the revenue for this upcoming year, not the year after. They aren't going to hold a vast number of student slots open for 1.5 years from now. That would be like Amazon saying, 'Sure, it's fine. We'll hold your TP for you and deliver it in 1.5 years when you're ready to pay.' Nope, not gonna happen.

There are lots of kids on the waitlist who will pay now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a guess, but I imagine admission offices might have some hard number of deferments they are not willing to go over. First come, first served sort of approach. Those 2020 who want to defer should get that done ASAP.

Hopefully we'll know more next week perhaps, for schools with May 1 deadlines.

I was speaking with a relative about this. She is a VP for a very well-known and respected university with a >10% acceptance rate. The colleges and universities will only allow a limited number of deferrals. It is a decision they make for financial reasons. Like all businesses, they need the revenue for this upcoming year, not the year after. They aren't going to hold a vast number of student slots open for 1.5 years from now. That would be like Amazon saying, 'Sure, it's fine. We'll hold your TP for you and deliver it in 1.5 years when you're ready to pay.' Nope, not gonna happen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a guess, but I imagine admission offices might have some hard number of deferments they are not willing to go over. First come, first served sort of approach. Those 2020 who want to defer should get that done ASAP.

Hopefully we'll know more next week perhaps, for schools with May 1 deadlines.

I was speaking with a relative about this. She is a VP for a very well-known and respected university with a >10% acceptance rate. The colleges and universities will only allow a limited number of deferrals. It is a decision they make for financial reasons. Like all businesses, they need the revenue for this upcoming year, not the year after. They aren't going to hold a vast number of student slots open for 1.5 years from now. That would be like Amazon saying, 'Sure, it's fine. We'll hold your TP for you and deliver it in 1.5 years when you're ready to pay.' Nope, not gonna happen.

Anonymous wrote:Just a guess, but I imagine admission offices might have some hard number of deferments they are not willing to go over. First come, first served sort of approach. Those 2020 who want to defer should get that done ASAP.

Hopefully we'll know more next week perhaps, for schools with May 1 deadlines.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I anticipate that this will land heavily on the class of 2021.

Colleges will surely allow deferrals. Class of 2021 is this unknown quantity: no grades, potentially no SAT's, no meaningful AP scores, no achievements. Figuring out whom to admit will be a nightmare for most colleges.

Class of 2020 students that were already admitted were excellent, hence that's why they were chosen. If a sizable portion of the class of 2020 students defer, college will admit off waitlist and be fine. Students at the top of the waitlist are barely different from students who were admitted, everyone knows it. Students who were juuuuuuust a tad below the cut will gladly grab onto the ability to attend a reach school, in person or not, and will not defer because they got an admission they were hoping for, but never really counting on.

Admission for 2021 will be much easier on the colleges; half the slots are already filled with excellent class of 2020 students!

Win-win for everyone except class of 2021, or current Juniors.

As a parent of a Junior, there is nothing I can do to change this layout. Yes it makes me upset. I will suggest that my child applies heavily to safeties in addition to the predetermined state and reach schools.

To parents of 2020 Seniors who just missed the cut to be admitted to the top choice schools - congrats, you pulled out a BANNER YEAR. Wait for those waitlists to move. You won a lottery. Don't miss your chance, recession is coming, it won't be pretty for anyone.

This is exactly why colleges will be happy to fill all of Fall 2020 and 1/2 of Fall 2021 with 2020 grads. They come with data and the colleges know what they're getting.
With the class of 2021 they have no idea. They could be admitting top students, they could be admitting mediocre students. There won't be meaningful ways to distinguish between students.
It's a huge bummer for high achievers in the class of 2021.


But life will go on. The reality is that top students will almost universally be fine regardless of what college they attend. We've all been reading the data that supports this and telling ourselves this for YEARS.
Now we will likely see it play out.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I anticipate that this will land heavily on the class of 2021.

Colleges will surely allow deferrals. Class of 2021 is this unknown quantity: no grades, potentially no SAT's, no meaningful AP scores, no achievements. Figuring out whom to admit will be a nightmare for most colleges.

Class of 2020 students that were already admitted were excellent, hence that's why they were chosen. If a sizable portion of the class of 2020 students defer, college will admit off waitlist and be fine. Students at the top of the waitlist are barely different from students who were admitted, everyone knows it. Students who were juuuuuuust a tad below the cut will gladly grab onto the ability to attend a reach school, in person or not, and will not defer because they got an admission they were hoping for, but never really counting on.

Admission for 2021 will be much easier on the colleges; half the slots are already filled with excellent class of 2020 students!

Win-win for everyone except class of 2021, or current Juniors.

As a parent of a Junior, there is nothing I can do to change this layout. Yes it makes me upset. I will suggest that my child applies heavily to safeties in addition to the predetermined state and reach schools.

To parents of 2020 Seniors who just missed the cut to be admitted to the top choice schools - congrats, you pulled out a BANNER YEAR. Wait for those waitlists to move. You won a lottery. Don't miss your chance, recession is coming, it won't be pretty for anyone.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone considered that there is no guarantee thats
spring or fall of 2021 will happen either? We don’t know enough at this point. No one knows when the pandemic will and or return.

Fall of 2020 could go on without an issue and then spring of 2021 or fall of 2021 could be online. Then what? You’ve just delayed your kid’s adult life for the same or worse outcome.