Posted on 08/07/2020 9:20:06 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
According to an email sent by Harvard and as reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education this morning, 340 first-year students have chosen to defer. Using estimates from Harvard’s reported class of 2023 – which counted 1,650 matriculates – this means that roughly 20% of first-year students have deferred from the top-ranked university in the country. Harvard had also anticipated 40% of their undergraduate population choosing to live on campus; they now expect only 25% based on the number of students who have accepted the invitation to do so. If these are the numbers for Harvard, it’s going to be a wild roller-coaster ride for higher education this year.
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What does this mean?
Unless you university’s endowment is in the billions, not millions, this is a hard one to ride out for a year.
I wondered the same thing. Defer what?
Defer usually means to reject, bypass or postpone.
Either they have chosen not to attend, or they have chosen not to pay now.
Somebody will stop by and explain.
Maybe it will eventually mean some people will wake up and skip the high cost and low return of university altogether.
The neighbor kid has finished up her freshman year online from the state university and is half-way through the sophomore year while sunning by the pool. I don’t think she has any intention of going back to the university and residence there any time soon. Her Dad loves it since he is saving a bundle.
I believe that Harvard permits deferred enrollment for the ever popular gap year.
Back in the day we needed to get to school, get finished and get to work as fast as possible since we were tired of being poor. Gap year? Didn’t exist. I was on the 18 and out plan with my folks so I had better have found myself by then and been on my way.
So they are choosing to postpone the start of their Freshman year. I’m a little bit surprised most colleges are still calling it a Fresh-MAN year at all.
Harvard is only doing online classes, whether the student lives on campus or not. Many colleges are doing “hybrid” programs in which some classes will be online and some will be in-person. I wouldn’t expect as many students to live on campus at schools which are doing the online-only program, compared to the hybrid program. And I would also expect more students to defer at schools that charge high tuition and only do on-line courses (which is why other schools are going the hybrid route.) The article does not point this out or make the distinction.
What this means is that my graduating senior in 2021 is going to have TWICE the competition getting into college.
Sigh.
“What does this mean?”
The pace of destruction of this country will slow down, a little bit.
Hope it means the foriegn trash students from Communist China and India chose not to enroll
Harvard is shit.
Circa 1983 I was accepted into pharmacy school due to my past degree in geology and my many elective courses in chemistry. I did not need to do the two years of pre pharmacy as my prior degree covered it.
What I find is that each and every course I took in pharmacy could have been delivered to me at a fraction of the cost via internet.
The exception is lab courses. You must really be there with the lab rats and drugs to really understand it all. That portion is most important. Aside from this the entire didactic could be entirely done via internet courses at a fraction of cost. If one avails themselves of modern technology.
The cost of University today is insane. The delivery of all that knowlege via the internet is incredible cheap. If one wishes to be educated just take the courses and then the test for such in a supervised testing center.
Our universities are not our friends.
I obtained 28 hours of credits via CLEP tests. This saved me one year of schooling and most oddly after I flunked out. I came back with a most improved attitude. I was most oddly a great student the second time. The first time I was less than stellar.
How will they rally students to vote Democrat in Novemberif none of them are on campus?
Isn’t there same day voter registration is Vermont or Hew Hampshire? Students from Massachusetts would drive to the state...vote...and drive home? Will that happen this year?
It means that these kids have opted to start in August 2021 instead of August 2020. As another poster mentioned, it does mean that there could be 300+ fewer slots for the freshmen entering in 2021.
NH requires voter ID.
Yeah. I just checked. It’s Vermont with thesame day voter registration.
I’m shocked 80% are still enrolled. Who is going to pay $70 grand for online classes? As Johnny Mac says, “you cannot be serious”
They have been admitted but have chosen to postpone the admission a year or more.
Maine too. Watched busloads of gay men drive in to turn a city referendum back in the early 90s.
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