USC Class of 2025 — Regular Decision

CADREAMIN
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:39:57 +0000

Ya, my D brought that rumor home too about them shutting down after tuition payments are made. I don’t think they are part of an evil conspiracy and believe they will do everything they can in their control to keep the school open and moving forward. Mine lived at USC throughout the pandemic and they were amazing throughout with what they had to work with. Super supportive of the students, using the USC Hotel for quarantining students that were still around campus in the middle of it all. Vaccines and health and mental health appts/checks easy to get. They are also very involved with the city and fed government on many studies and research going on re covid. I don’t like everything they do, but it terms of the pandemic, I have to give them five stars. We were able to attend a real graduation ceremony in May (unlike many others in college around the US and CA) because of their efforts (it was a lot to pull off), as was the big re-boot they had for the fall semester. The only reason they would go back to online would be out of necessity versus greed. They made the decision to do on campus when things about covid were looking much brighter (pre-Delta), and now they have to work within this continuing saga (again), so any action they take going forward will be dictated by the pandemic numbers, not their dollars or withdraw deadlines. I do understand some teachers are offering students the option to come to class and/or watch it via Zoom. I think they everyone is doing the best they can. For the students or anyone to think it could be 100% back to normal at this point is a bit unrealistic, I’m just glad they get to be back on campus, but there are likely to be things that aren’t up to the usual standards. Football games will require masks, but at least there will be football for example.