'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

Jennibc
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:45:33 +0000

I wonder how much of this has to do with students opting for a gap year. My son was supposed to attend Harvard but saw the writing on the wall - no in-person classes. doing school remotely on line and opted to apply for a gap year back in April. He and 346 of his classmates are not in school this year. That’s almost a quarter of the admitted class. They will all be going in the fall. So I think an awful lot of students decided after the spring fiasco of zoom classes in their schools that this was NOT the kind of higher education they wanted. Since there was an option to defer, why not?