Nice to see some good news.
DS20 also got off of waitlist at UChicago (to make it a three way tie between UChicago, Cornell and Berkeley; he is planning to major in CS/Math). Anyone with an insight into UChicago for CS or Math, please PM me. TIA.
How can we expect them to know? I donât understand this need for schools to make a decision⊠it will likely change anyway.
I canât imagine that a state like California, which has controlled the spread, will cancel in person classes 5 months from now. I believe in American ingenuity and that testing and contact tracing will be there ( opt in tracking apps that will be Mandatory if you want to get into this program or that building).
Ours already stated that theyâre not going to make any decisions about Fall until at LEAST the start of June, but they are currently preparing with several alternatives if a return to campus is not possible.
Donât know if anyone has shared this: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/fall
Hi?Iâm a parent of a d in the class of 2021. We have been searching for merit for the fall 2021. Is there a thread where the class of 2020 are sharing their stats( act/sat, Gpa, extra curricular, hooks, etcâŠcolleges applied to, merit offered and final decision? Maybe even the thought process on final decision? I would be interested in a thread like this if someone were to start itâor knowing the title of a thread that is already started if one exists. Thank you in advance.
I personally would not put a lot of stock in having picked classes and dorm assignments meaning they are âopenâ in the fall. All colleges want to be open next semester but none of them know if they will be or not, especially a college in a major U.S. city/district. Some colleges want students committing now because they are concerned about losing them to other local colleges, deferment, gap years, etc so they are treating things like âbusiness as usualâ even if thatâs not reality.
I hope Iâm wrong but Itâs way too early for colleges to know what they plan to do in fall.
This isnât exactly what you are looking for but it might be interesting to read.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/215577-can-more-graduated-seniors-do-actual-results-threads.html#latest
There are multiple merit threads but it depends on your childâs stats, academic interests, region of the country they want to study in, big school, small school, etc. I donât want to de-rail the 2020 discussion so feel free to PM me with more specifics and Iâll see if I can direct you to threads that you might find helpful.
@lkg4answers thank you. After your suggestion, I checked it out and posted to keep it current asking for merit results.
@1Lotus I would keep in mind with schools losing so much money, last quarter (or semester) grades varying wildly, and the lack of standardized tests for many that next yearâs merit and aid both will be impossible to base off of this yearâs crop of students.
I am afraid that will indeed be the case. It makes me rather nervous about S22 college applications and his merit prospect.
S20 received merit scholarships at 6 out of the 7 schools he applied to (cs major). @1Lotus pm me if you would like details.
I know many parents are now considering a gap year or even having their current college students take a year off if classes in the fall are online. The problem is that colleges will not allow a large percentage of their incoming class to take a gap year, and we also cannot have large numbers of students in the current classes take off a year or even a semester. It will completely throw off our numbers for the following year. Can you imagine what we would do about housing alone? And we are certainly not going to admit 50% less students next year just because we have half our admitted class deciding to take a gap year. Most schools have a cap in the number of students allowed to take a gap year before matriculating. They can only adjust that number so much.
This is certainly the case at my New England LAC. We really do not know. We just made a decision last week about all summer courses moving online. We have a task force looking at various options, but they are also monitoring the governorâs daily announcements so we stay in line with state guidelines. And, we are talking to other LACs in New England and the local area about their different plans. We are not thinking about this in isolation. In a nice way, Covid 19 is bringing the higher ed community together.
As I mentioned in another thread:
There are a lot of discussions around this in the higher ed community. Believe me, we are certainly NOT already writing off a whole semester of residential college this fall. Colleges are going to wait until the last minute to make the decision. You have to remember that R&B is a MAJOR part of our budget. If we have to forfeit that money in the fall we will have a significant deficit. Yet, they will still need to find a way to pay faculty and staff. (My salary hasnât been reduced just because I now teach my classes remotely.) And adjuncts and contingent faculty are the only professors that can be laid off without the institution filing bankruptcy. (The big perk of tenure.) No one is more concerned than us. For non-elite colleges, this is a matter of survival. There are only so many cuts you can make.
Yeah, Iâve been worried about this for D22, also. I can see her casting a much wider net than S20, in hopes of having a couple of affordable options to compare.
SighâŠmy son is having such a hard time making his decision without the opportunity to visit schools. He is crossing some great colleges off the list because we didnât have the chance to visit, including one with a full-tuition scholarship. Weâve tried everything we could to help and support him. Really hoping he can figure this out.
@jdhMom there are a lot of people in the same situation. You just have to do the best you can.
@jdhMom sorry! Itâs so hard. S20 is having trouble with one that we did visit in the summer, but there werenât students there, and he doesnât like the kids from his school who go there, so heâs not giving it a chance. We were supposed to go back to admitted student day but of course that didnât happen.
In Forbes last night: âBoston University Is First To Announce It May Postpone Its Fall Term Until January 2021.â
@JCAmine this story is all over the Coronavirus threads here. Jan opening is just an option. Lots of other schools considering it as well.
January move-in in Minneapolis. Boy wouldnât that be funâŠ
"And adjuncts and contingent faculty are the only professors that can be laid off without the institution filing bankruptcy. (The big perk of tenure.) "
No, this is not right. Faculty, even with tenure, can be laid off in at least two circumstances: (1) their entire unit is eliminated, and (2) the university declares âfinancial exigencyâ (different from bankruptcy because it does not discharge the universityâs debts).
Just chiming in on schools planning for a possible online fall semester. I would be very worried if a school did NOT plan for this possibility. I have to believe that most if not all schools are hoping for the best but planning for the worst as well as any possiblity in between.