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S25 is a humanities kid, so not on our radar. But D23 is STEM all the way and cuts to NIH and NSF are already hitting colleges and universities, undergrads and graduate students - R1’s and LAC’s, everyone will be affected.
As an example, all of the NSF REU’s D23 is hearing from have had a massive uptick in applicants (700 applications for 4 spaces as an example, where last year it was 300 or 400), and some she’s applied to have cancelled due to lack of funding. Huge loss on so many levels.
I’m not sure I would advise S25 differently were he a STEM kid, but it would certainly influence conversations about the particular fields he was interested in. No one can say what will happen, but for now it does not look good.