The following communication from our school’s college guidance office refers to the current college admissions but is easily applicable to this year’s BS admissions too:
“• How is the coronavirus impacting the admissions process? Suffice it to say that our colleagues on the college side are facing many complicating factors as they finalize decisions and attempt to hit their ideal enrollment numbers. For one, not having on-campus admitted student programs will make it difficult to predict their yield relative to past years. There are also understandable concerns about how many admitted international students will be able to accept offers of admission, between uncertainty over potential future travel bans and the student visa process. There is also the uncertainty about whether their own study abroad programs will be allowed to run next year, which impacts on-campus housing. With so much in the air, it is likely that many schools will keep longer wait lists and may need to keep those lists active much later than usual—likely into the summer. While we have not had the sense that this situation is significantly impacting their immediate admissions decision-making, it is safe to say that the wait list process is a real wild card in 2020. Hopefully that means that there will be more opportunities for students to be admitted off wait lists than in recent years.”