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To defer or not to defer?

Posted by Neal Schwartz on June 02, 2020

 

 

High school seniors are facing the dilemma of the century. But is deferring their freshman year in favor of a gap year the right choice?

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Topics: college admissions, online learning, distance learning, college counseling, college plans for the fall, gap year, college freshman

US Colleges are facing a pivotal moment, will they change?

Posted by Neal Schwartz on May 05, 2020

 

 

 

How will the pandemic transform college as we know it?

 

As the uncertainty about the pandemic’s impact on the future of college continues to unfold, there is a wide range of speculation, starting with school this fall. Should colleges plan for an online fall, delay the whole semester, or just plan for a regular semester?

Should social distancing be enforced by individual states, there could be a potpourri of fall openings. Such measures for a successful fall opening would involve getting students, faculty, and staff tested, reducing the number of students per class, integrating rotating schedules, offering a hybrid of online and in-person classes; the list goes on and on.

But underneath all of the operational questions for each college lies the financial question. What is the financial health of the college? Even though no one was prepared for anything like the pandemic, some colleges will be hit harder than others. That's because of three factors:

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Topics: college admissions, online learning, distance learning, online college counseling, college financial health, college counseling, college plans for the fall, international college students, college affordability, college value proposition

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