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.
Of course, that will impact other states that play CA teams. Gonzaga announced plans to reopen the campus for the fall semester, and the Zags play in the WCC, where 7 of the 10 members are CA schools.