Not many people will take gap year with a college like Michigan! watch it. by Monday you will know. A few might trickle in but thats it.
I think coming to a top US school is very prestigious in China, and people will try to come, just like Americans will send their kids. That is why they have their numbers. Not just Michigan, but other top schools. I think the people who really were worried about it made other plans early. The biggest worry for internationals is whether they can get here at all. If Republicans win the White House, they may be blocked indefinitely. But I agree, that it is a bigger risk for them than for an American who can drive home if the pandemic heats up again.
I think that’s what we are saying. But what do you mean by flexibility?
Of course, every university in the US has to make assumptions about the disease. Last school year they sent everyone home in March, which was something no one planned on. There’s also the slim possibility that a vaccine is available between now and Thanksgiving too.
Life happens everyone. We’re going to try and make the best of a bad situation. The university has announced extensive medical and cleaning protocols, which I won’t list here, plus, they’re reconfiguring classrooms.
Most freshman (LSA) take a first year writing course, these classes are about 20 kids. Most 200 level math courses are 50 students or less. I can’t think of any labs or discussion groups that have more than 50 students from our experience.
I don’t know how many but lots of internationals didn’t go back home . They stayed on campus. Not sure if they were allowed to stay put or had to go lease something for the summer. Lot’s of leases to do this and many just stayed but I doubt it is enough to sway any statistics on this.
The Alumni will be open to some extent to use the money the University believes serves them the best.
I understand. They made the right call. What else could they do? But we won’t know how it goes until we live it. It’s tough weathering a pandemic! Hoping for the best, but everyone is still rightfully nervous.
@knowstuff I think it was between 70-90% stayed in US depending on the school. But for freshman, getting into the US may prove difficult.
Of course and why they can only use projection models or analysis to help predict what will happen. In a week , I think there will be a clearer picture but with Michigan’s model of letting the student choose if they want to be at home or on campus is a win/win for everyone and will lessen the chance of people dropping out. As stated above, lots of Michigan’s classes are much smaller then people realize. Especially for a Big Ten school.
True for senior students. Less so for freshman.
man i’m just trying get off this waitlist
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Wait until the EU bans incoming Americans as is rumored to be happening shortly. The Big Cheeto will surely respond by cutting visas to EU students, so you might not have a single EU student able to enter the country by the time school starts.
I guess there’s no point talking about waitlist anymore. All we need to do is to see what would happen throughout this week.
What Michigan will announce and do is two different things as a parent of a Michigan Stater and Penn State their statements were in class fall but what we got is online when we checked their schedule. Students are dropping out and Michigan State has now informed the parents that on June 29th they will try to offer some in-class for classes that are online. ITs a mess but neither schools have issued guidance on 300 and 400 level course work yet.
Expectations should be online for the fall which will pull students off the waitlist as the summer moves on and expect OOS to be positively impacted by this
As for the endowment they could have a 12 billion endowment but it’s VERY restrictive and that’s why they are expecting a huge loss this year. Universities can only use unrestricted funds and you can see how much that is on their financial statements.
My son got in off waitlist to SMI. Anyone else taking this?
My daughter did and has already made her deposit.
Stanford had a wave yesterday
So I take back what I said. There is still hope. Maybe people really are still opting for a gap year at this late date. Wow
@luke494 and @Ehpmom My son did and we sent in the deposit as well.