"EARLY EVENTS FOR admitted students can offer a useful introduction to the college campus, helping students get their bearings and learn more about the many services available to them. But many such programs are shutting down as colleges close due to spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19.
For students who have been accepted to a college but haven’t made a decision, institutional responses to the pandemic may make doing so harder. If a student hasn’t already visited the colleges where he or she has been accepted, a closed campus likely eliminates the option to do so.
That means choosing a college just got harder.
That’s the case for Katie Benston, a mother of a high school senior and junior in North Carolina. Benston says her son, a high school senior, had already visited a number of campuses but hoped to visit more colleges before making a decision by May 1, traditionally known as National College Decision Day. Now he may have to consider attending a college he hasn’t visited." …