Since I have a son who will be a freshman somewhere in the fall and I am assuming fall 2020 will be like late spring 2020 AKA online learning, does it change you Childs school. BY this I mean assume fall semester is online, spring semester everything back to normal. Do you pay the pricey OOS tuition? Do you pay the pricey LAC tuition? Yes you will not be paying Room and Board for a semester so you save some cash but some schools fall semester tuition is north of 30k. do you trust the school who gave you a grant but it is only for one year at a time? A lot to decide and not really a lot of time. I would think more parents will flock to closer state schools esp if they are a donut family. Thoughts???
I originally put this on the Rutgers thread by accident.
I’m still in the process of deciding where I will go to school next year and was just having this exact conversation with my parents. If anything this is more of a reason to stick with either my instate option or state schools that gave me high merit versus paying high tuition for a more prestigious school, especially when classes are being taught over video calls. While I am still looking at some of these my out of state options, my parents have already expressed to me that they would prefer I start at my in state option and then transfer out if I don’t like it upon returning to campus in the spring, since they do not feel they should be paying even more when classes are online. As a high school student with the majority of my classes currently being taught on Zoom video conference, I totally understand why paying expensive tuition for this limited method of teaching is much less appealing.
However, be aware that transfer admission tends to be less visible (in terms of assessing reach/match/likely/safety) than frosh admission, and transfer merit scholarships tend to be much less common than frosh merit scholarships.