My D’s best friend who will be attending Syracuse in the fall said that the college will require international students to show up 2 weeks before the other students to self-quarantine for 14 days.
What would be the purpose of this? Are international students more likely to be carrying the disease than the current U.S. population? In fact, one could argue that we should be protecting the international students from all of the potentially infected U.S. students especially ones coming from hard hit states.
SoCal, I’m not 100% sure, but it may be a New York law right now that international travelers have to self quarantine for 14 days. I know right now that certain states even have that for people from other domestic states (Maine, RI are two that require out-of-staters to quarantine for 2 weeks if they enter their states). I would guess as states move through their reopening phases, the quarantine for out-of-staters requirement may go away, but perhaps there will be one for internationals still. So perhaps Syracuse is just being cautious, to make sure they don’t have students show up the day before class only to find they cannot leave their rooms for 2 weeks. But of course I’m not sure.
My friend’s daughter committed to go to USC (Southern CA), now the parents made her go to Villanova instead because of the fear of the virus. Cost is pretty much the same. I suspect many parents are now preferring the closer to home option if cost wasn’t an issue (ranking/campus experience is less important now for some)
@Nhatrang I work for a college and while our current deposits for first years are below target, our transfer deposits are significantly higher than they’ve ever been. I think many are choosing closer to home, for sure.
I don’t see how any college wouldn’t offer an online option for students this fall. It helps reduce campus density. It protects vulnerable students. It allows any students who may need to be quarantined near campus to continue attending their classes.
Really? My son will be attending a US school this fall as an international. 14 days quarantine? How can school accommodate this? It requires a lot of single rooms and services like delivering food.
We just got our last installment of our high school’s news magazine and, indeed, kids are staying closer to home. The list of kids and their college choices reveal that. We always have a lot of kids going to UIUC but I swear that number looks doubled. Fewer kids to CA schools and fewer kids going to schools like Duke and Vandy (which are closer to IL but likely full-price expensive for most families here). We kind of know who the top kids are and I see a lot of their names on the UIUC list as well at UMich and Wisconsin. I have to believe they applied elsewhere and got in but chose to stay closer to home. This list is markedly different than last year’s list.
Interesting how things are playing out at different high schools. With D20’s graduating class I can’t think of a single student who has changed their mind based solely on CV-19. However, I am seeing a few kids, mostly full pay, who are getting off waitlists. One senior we know who was committed to Tulane, has now got off the waitlist this week to Wake Forest and UC Berkeley. She is a good student but is probably in the bottom 25% for grades and test scores at these colleges.
I live in Wisconsin and feel like I’m seeing the same thing. My D graduated from high school last year so I don’t get the publications with the full lists - though I might try to look for one - but most of the top kids from this years class seem to be going to Madison. There is one USC and a couple of other out of state kids, but it seems a lot more are staying closer to home than normal.
Same. We are seeing ALOT of waitlist movement up and down the selectivity chart. Kids getting off waitlists and accepting Northeastern, BC, BU, GT, UMiami, also kids who committed to lower rank schools moving up to Providence, Marist, Fairfield, etc. So I think Covid is freeing up spots from kids that may be far away US or international and alot waitlist movement is happening.
Believe it, she got wait listed at Villanova and just got in from the WL. She got rejected from University of Miami, UMich, UCLA, Clemson. USC acceptance was a shock, WL from Villanova was a disappointment, thought she could get in. Rejected from Clemson and U of Miami was a surprise/shock, supposed to be safeties.
We have 7 kids from our school got accepted to Villanova with very high stats, none got merit scholarship either.
Anxiously awaiting Georgia Tech’s fall semester plan. Hoping they offer a remote option (or all remote). If anyone has any insider info, would appreciate!
The author had a great gap year experience. I’m not sure that is what this years incoming freshmen will experience so they need to prepare for that. I do, however, think that gap years (especially for incoming freshmen) should be considered.
Interesting. My daughter left campus and came home after she got a severe case of mono. The school applied her tuition to the following semester’s even without us asking, though we had no tuition insurance. (We were notified by mail.) I think before you shell out the money for insurance, talk to your school about their policies regarding leaving campus due to illness. Tuition insurance may not be necessary.
The gap years during COVID seem like a not so good option. What will they be doing? Jobs are not hiring. There are no internships and they can’t travel abroad. So what will the kids do in their gap year?