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Which schools have cancelled the admitted students days or preview days. in 2020
NJdad07090
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Replies to: Which schools have cancelled the admitted students days or preview days. in 2020
Columbia
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
UPenn
More to follow, I'm sure
Columbia
Harvard
LMU
MIT
Stanford
UPenn
I agree, especially if classes are still in session.
My D and her dad are going out to UF and FSU the second week of April for admitted student days. At this point, even if they are cancelled, I think they may go out anyway and do self guided tours, but we will see. FSU is a personalized one on one tour for honors students, so I'm hoping that is not cancelled, at least. It's not the typical "big crowd" event or tour , so fingers crossed. We will see. Your son is a junior, though. Any chance you could postpone visits until summer (I know the heat is brutal in the summer, but maybe it would be a better time)?
Fortunately we’ve been there twice, once on the official tour. DS will be disappointed if the official accepted student event is cancelled, because he really wanted to focus on the business school to make his decision. Hopefully it won’t be cancelled, but he has enough of a sense to make a decision if we don’t go back in April.
Edited to add that as far as we know, Rutgers has not cancelled as of this point.
No option for a summer visit for us. DS21 got invited to MIT football camp
I am hoping it stays booked. If this thing gets really bad, I could envision football camp being canceled, and maybe even the airlines shutting down? I know that some people would accuse me of blowing things out of proportion but I consider myself a pragmatist. Looking at the data we have right now from egregiously limited testing, it sure seems to me that the transmission rate is really, really high. And if the early information about the virus mutating and re-infecting people proves to be correct (again, not trying to be cray cray here but as a biology major in college I learned enough to know that viruses certainly do mutate/evolve - look at influenza as a case in point) then who knows what the world looks like in six months?
@elena13 Bummer about Vandy's Mosiac!
Colleges are cancelling these events because they do not want visitors on campus because it is risky to have us there. It's risky for students with pre-existing conditions, older faculty members, and the families of all of those folks. It's also risky for us to be there because college campuses are a Petri dish of germs and will almost definitely be a breeding ground for COVID-19 after everyone comes back from spring break.
Yale cancelled our campus tour and info session for early April. If you go to the Yale undergraduate admissions webpage it says that tours are cancelled and "Prospective students and families are discouraged from traveling to campus at this time."
Finally, consider that if by chance you end up with COVID-19 within two weeks after visiting a campus and have visited one or several college campuses, all of them will be informed of your visit and possibility that you have infected others on the campus. I imagine that might hurt an applicant's admission chance, especially if the campus explicitly asked that visitors not come.
Oddly, Cornell Concert Commission just announced a March 22nd show the night before last; I am guessing that will be pulled soon.