If I were an incoming freshman at a university that had not yet declared they were opening in late August, I would take a gap year.
why pay full tuition, at a new school, for which you will only get online courses?
I’ve got a high school senior son. He was accepted at a Virginia “Public Ivy” for the Fall. Out of state tuition is around $45,000 plus room, board, fees.
I’m not paying that much for him to sit in his room and do correspondence courses.
He will definitely be taking a gap year!
It's bad enough that public high schools have not prepared students for 4 year colleges and universities. That has been the case for at least 50 years IMO. I still remember my first two weeks of college, nearly 50 years ago. I was terrified, seemed like everyone I met was in the top 1% of their class.
If I were an incoming freshman at a university that had not yet declared they were opening in late August, I would take a gap year.
Why pay full tuition, at a new school, for which you will only get online courses?
One of our grandsons is finishing his freshman second semester on line. He still doesn’t know if his Cal State branch will be open or not. That is negatively impacting an internship and a job this summer.
He has two younger friends supposedly being graduated from high school in May with pending athletic scholarships. They and their parents are having a lot of sleepless nights and loud discussions during the day. Of course their potential colleges have no idea if they will have football, basketball or baseball this school year. They were tendered big buck scholarships before the CV storm hit.