In the past 5 days, I am hearing of many more students considering skipping fall semester

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@austinmshauri

Bowdoin has told students any of them can take leaves, but they can’t guarantee that they will be able to return in their desired semester, based on enrolled numbers at that point in time. Because it’s a meets full need school, I doubt there are FA implications, but there certainly could be at other schools.

This depends on how many families suffered a financial setback and how many students decide to take a gap year. Both will cost schools a lot of money. Some colleges may need to reassess their meets need policies.

Agreed.

I think need-blind policies are more at risk than meets-full-need though. The Bowdoin president is on the record as saying they may not be able to continue being need-blind when reviewing apps.

OTOH he said that when the stock market was much lower than it is today (S&P is around 40% higher than March lows) so I assume their endowment has recovered its losses.