My kid was offered a spot off the BU waitlist very early this year- right around May 1. I’m sure they are losing kids left and right. The waitlist movement because of Covid has been heavy everywhere - I keep seeing social media posts of kids (especially full pays) moving “up” to reach schools that they were waitlisted at. Covid is giving many wealthy kids access to their dream reach school - they don’t really care so much about what these schools are doing in the fall - just that they are ‘in’ for 4 years.
I’ve used all by globe free articles in two browsers so can’t read this…do all the profs have the option to teach their classes remotely (either from home or their office)?
@BuckeyeMWDSG tOSU’s houses almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. So any over-enrollment that would impact this year would have been last year’s freshmen cohort. They currently have about 1,500 more freshmen enrolled (paid deposit) than last year. They must be anticipating a large melt this summer (coming from both freshmen and sophomores). No way they could easily absorb an extra 1,000+ students in housing easily. And it is rational to expect a lot of non-returning students. It could be that there are a few dorms they were planning on taking off-line this year (maybe for renovations). I guess they’ll be sharing details on that soon…
@ucbalumnus I understand those types of classes aren’t four credits and I actually think it’s a good idea to have PE as a requirement to get kids moving and social.
As for that marathon course, let’s just say there weren’t that many kids in there, that they were all high school runners who weren’t running in college, and my nephew thought it was awesome to get a little credit for something he always planned to do anyway. Since then, he’s run a dozen marathons including qualifying for Boston and New York.
Wonder if colleges can still offer these PE classes in the age of Covid!
Haven’t heard any news about bigger universities suggesting students take fewer classes to help with social distancing. I think that’s because they are getting geared up to offer all of their classes remotely. Maybe some smaller colleges aren’t set up to do that. Also, larger universities have more big classroom spaces to space kids out where an Amherst does not so, encouraging kids to take fewer classes helps the college. All of this just proves the obvious - each school will have to deal with Covid uniquely.
While Amherst and Williams apparently give only placement for AP scores, Swarthmore gives credit as well:
https://www.swarthmore.edu/registrar/ap-or-ib-credit
Pomona gives credit for AP scores in a limited amount (up to 2 can be counted toward the 32 courses needed for graduation):
https://www.pomona.edu/admissions/connect/admitted-students/advanced-standing
Which private colleges did you look up? You might have chosen an unrepresentative sample.
Ewww… This article makes me think the professors could strike prior to the start of the school year??? Another obstacle to overcome. If professors really don’t want to come back due to health concerns, babysitting etc what would they do?
I haven’t gone back to re-read it, but what I recall is that at least some of the profs had to request an exemption in order to choose teaching remotely, and that request included providing medical documentation which caused concerns about privacy. I’ll try to go back and read it again at some point in case there is better info from it I can share, but that was the sense I got.
Also, just in case it appeals, The Globe was offering 6 months digital access for a dollar when I signed up about a month ago…I grew up in Boston so like to read their articles when I can, and that was a pretty great deal, so maybe it’s still available. 
Source, please? And you can even use my earlier, generous definition of “most”. (Hint: the US has more than 1600 private, nonprofit colleges.)
@roycroftmom Considering that it seems unlikely that international students who are not currently in the USA will be able to come for classes next year, I don’t know whether most of them would opt to do the year online or take a gap year. In all the Amherst virtual town halls, they have strongly advised international students not to leave the country, if possible.
@knowstuff also makes me wonder about if these classes will be better this fall than last spring. There was a lot of talk about how those spring classes were rushed online but fall classes will be better since faculty has time to prepare. I also cannot read the article but professors being better prepared does not seem to be the case.
Elon’s current plan is for in-person, although they appear to be leaving the final decision up to the professor.
All Elon courses will be offered through in-person instruction in classrooms configured to support physical distancing, with requirements for wearing face coverings and sanitizing surfaces such as desks, computers or other equipment. Elon class sizes are small. Many classes will physically distance desks. Other classes may be moved to bigger spaces on campus, including some rooms that are not normally used for instruction.
Many faculty will teach classes using creative pedagogies, adopting blended instruction and student engagement models to decrease the number of students physically present at any one time in the classroom, lab, studio, or other space. These models typically require flexible approaches to the use of both class meeting times and instructional technology.
I wish the professors would indicate their preference in-person /virtual/combination now so that the students who may not want the virtual option could arrange their class schedules appropriately.
The bolded is akin to dog-bites-human. There is almost never a time where faculty feel “adequately consulted,” unless it is one of their own faculty-led projects, and even then faculty will complain about being left out.
Some/many would be in breach of contract, subject to termination. Requesting accommodations for heath reasons is perfectly legit (and likely covered by existing employment laws), but not babysitting. That being said, most colleges – like any employer – don’t want to lose key employees (faculty) so they’ll have no choice but to be somewhat flexible.
@homerdog, Haverford has said that the fall semester will “be based on in-person classes, for those who elect to return to campus.” They’ve given no indication that any large percentage of classes will be online if a student is on campus.
I have a small request.
Can posters please spell out the names of colleges? USNH, tOSU, what are these places? Other posters shouldn’t have to google in the middle of posts.
@“Cardinal Fang” University of Southern New Hampshire. The Ohio State.
Agree. I know of a couple of local full pay kids that just got off the Vanderbilt waitlist. Not sure that would have happened a year ago?
I’m not sure where you are getting that, or even how to respond. The students are humans, like anywhere, with a full range of possibilities. (I’ve adjuncted at 4 schools btw.)
Where do you think I’ve been disdainful of them?
To give an idea on a public university and classes in person- ECU (East Carolina University) has stated on live streams that classes will be online classes for any class larger than 50 students (not sure what happens at exactly 50 students but I am assuming online).
They are also moving to block scheduling and they had to move already registered students over. This has caused some headaches for sure and I think they are still ironing out all the wrinkles… ECU also has a robust DE (distance education aka online) platform and more and more classes that were in-person keep swapping out to DE. My DD checks and rechecks her classes daily to see if they have swapped to online or they have raised the student cap above 50 which would also be online.
My daughter is registered for 17 credits. As of this morning, 6 of those credit hours will be online (due to class size in her case) and 11 of her credit hours will be in person.
Dang, I thought that was THE Oklahoma State. Go figure!
My D is taking a class this summer online from her school. She feels it’s WAY better than her spring classes, but it’s possible that the professor is just particularly good. But what her school did this summer was to scrap their entire summer schedule and start over. Usually most of their summer classes are held on campus. Obviously this year they went to all online. But, classes had to be approved first before students could register. I think the school wanted to ensure that there was an actual plan for the online class and it wasn’t just thrown together. They drastically cut the cost of the courses and are offering a ton of them. Most of D’s friends are taking at least 1, most more. I suspect the professors were offered some sort of incentive for these courses. Now they have more online experience and course plans for a lot more courses. I am hopeful that will help with the quality of courses come fall AND that since the school says their plans will be announced by early July means professors have some time to prepare.