@Damon389 University of Idaho is getting quite popular in our area (we live in Southern California)! Our local town magazine always does a feature on college signing day for sports and two kids had signed letters of intent to play at Idaho. One kid was from our local public high school and the other kid was from the catholic school in our town. S has a co worker’s kid who I think is a junior there and loves it and we had another neighbor (who has sadly moved away) whose kid went there as well and loved it too! My SIL substitutes at some of our local high schools and she’s had at least 3 kids in her class who are attending or considering Idaho!
I work at a private school two towns away and while we haven’t had any kids attend Idaho, we have had at least a few who’ve applied the last few years. This year we had 4 kids apply, all of them got in, but none ended up going there. The former middle school Spanish teacher at my school is an Idaho alum and always had wonderful things to say about it. Her classroom was decorated in the school colors!
My kids did consider it, but didn’t end up being interested. Too bad, seems like a great place!
I forgot to mention: my D has a friend whose sister goes to Idaho as well! (was looking back at the previous pages in this thread and saw one of my older posts) and my H’s co worker’s son is going to Idaho next year (I got the kid mixed up with my H’s other co worker’s son who is a junior at Sonoma State)…it’s hard to keep track of who’s who when it’s someone’s sister or my H’s co workers that I don’t see all the time
Anyone else stressing out and trying not to alarm their child?
Our University (App State) is going with the start on time and finish by Thanksgiving plan, and I have heard that NC schools will attempt to have real classes for Freshman and Seniors, but I just don’t see how. I am not confident that my son will do well with online classes at this point, and if he is away from home and doing classes on line this could be a disaster…
My D has taken everything that’s happened to her senior year in stride so far. But if she doesn’t go to college in the fall, she will have a meltdown. I’m letting her decide what she wants to do, which clearly right now is to be on campus, and then I’m hoping for the best.
@ITBgirl UNC Wilmington is following the same plans as App. I guess we will see what happens. I’ve heard that there may be a mixture of in person classes/hybrid and some online. My daughter is super excited to go to Wilmington, we are proceeding as she will leave. She received housing information last week.
Hello all, just checking in, pretty quiet here. We have waffled between doing a deferral for the first semester and staying home and doing the university classes on line but today we are planning on sending DS20 up to move in, well aware that he could be sent home an a few weeks. Just praying and trying to stay positive.
I see my last post was saying D will have a meltdown if she doesn’t go off to college. Well… looks like it’s a strong possibility. They will announce next week. And she’s handling it like a champ, I must say.
Arizona announced today they are officially on for being on campus. They seem to have a really good plan in place led by a former surgeon general, so we’re pretty comfortable with S going. He booked a suite style dorm room, and as of now he has no roommate and the other room only has one guy as well, so if that holds it will be a good setup.
@ITBgirl same here, we have gone back and forth. My daughter was finally able to register for classes last week and the majority of her classes are in person. She has a move in date for 8/15 and classes begin 8/19. I think in the back of my mind she wouldn’t be going anywhere but it seems to becoming a reality. I’m trying to remain positive but I have a feeling they may be there a couple of weeks then send them home. In her case if not for COVID then I’m sure it will be a hurricane:)
Originally told UMW classes would be a hybrid…but just saw finalized course schedule for DD who will be at UMW.
3 courses will be online
1 course (a first year seminar course) will be the only in person class
…plus 2 online courses DD is taking through local CC (courses not offered at UMW)
The 1 in-person class is T/TH – as we are in NOVA (about 1 hr from UMW), we are wondering…why bother paying room & board? Just drive down T/Th for the 1 in-person class.
DD still wants to be on campus in the dorms…but with 90% online classes we are wondering if it will be a ghost town anyways. She wonders what kind of socialization/friend-making opportunities she’ll have.
Plus the plan (like many other colleges) is to go home at Thanksgiving and finish everything online, returning only at end of January.
Maybe I’m just being optimistic, but I’ve got to think there will be a lot of freshman on campus and provided they’re following CDC protocol, they’ll certainly be able to socialize.
My daughter doesn’t have any friends who have decided to take a deferral or gap year. They are all still planning on going to their schools for move in. I think if my daughter would have seen other’s falling into that pack she may have followed. However, she is set on moving in on 8/15/20 and classes begin at UNCW on 8/19/20. We’ll see how this plays out. If their not sent home for COVID it may be a hurricane. Good luck to you all that are ready to send your kids out into this crazy unpredictable world right now:)
Well…S20 moved in to VMI this past Monday (early due being a soccer athlete). We return to VMI on Saturday for Matriculation. We are excited, however our (and his) excitement is unfortunately dampened a bit by cancellation of soccer season games. &^$#@ COVID. Going to make the best of it though and hopefully the season can happen later with a few games and/or in the spring with at least a few regional games.
D20’s campus move-in for UMW was postponed by 3 weeks so now set for 10 September . All but 1 class going to be online anyways. Classes still start on 24 August.
So now not even 3 months on campus before returning home to finish semester online. At least they already sent out an email noting that there would be a prorated discount for R&B.
D20 knows of one girl who is taking a Gap year…but all other friends moving on campus as planned.
We’re getting ready to leave Tuesday to take S20 to Arizona. He’s moving in on Thursday. Hopefully he passes the COVID test so he can move into his room and not the quarantine dorm.
Moved my daughter to UNC Wilmington on Saturday. She started classes today. She had 1 zoom class this morning and an afternoon face to face class. Let’s hope they can stay thru the semester. Wishing everyone the best.
My daughter is home from UNC Wilmington. She moved in on 8/15/20 and moved out on 9/12/20. Due to an increase in Covid the school decided to give kids the option of moving home with a pro-rated refund or moving into a single room. All of her classes have now gone online. She had 3 in person to begin with. She is fine with being home and second guessing if UNC Wilmington is where she wants to be. It’s been a strange beginning for these kids. She is considering transferring to UNC Charlotte next fall which will be much closer to home.
@ljasnau I am sorry her time at Wilmington was so short but I am glad to hear that she is taking it well. It is a crazy time for all these kids.
My son is still on campus at App, but it is very restricted and all his classes are on line. But he is very happy there, I hope he can stay until Thanksgiving as planned.
@ITB my daughter has several friends at App. They are trucking along well. I’m impressed with how well the school is doing. I think that UNCW was getting some backlash from the County and may have jumped the gun a little to soon, but we will take what we can and move forward. She has some decisions to make between now and Spring semester. I will support whatever she decides to do (just don’t wait so long to make a decision) lol