Choosing a College During Coronavirus: How Four Students Decided

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Choosing a college during the pandemic has brought intensified anxiety and uncertainty. Four first-year students shared their experiences.

Choosing a college in the best of times is stressful. Choosing a college during the pandemic has brought intensified anxiety and uncertainty not just over longstanding issues such as financial aid, but also new ones like virus trends in different geographies and whether classes would be in-person or online.

Four first-year students shared their experiences. Their stories have been edited for clarity and length.

 

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Young, healthy people should thank their lucky stars. For more than half a year, there have been countless patients struggling for their breaths in hospitals. Compare their sufferings to the anxiety one experiences in choosing a college.

Work for a year and take some part-time classes. Everyone needs to spend a few years doing really crappy jobs in order to grow.

don't waste your money. online / remote learning isn't really college. you'll learn very little.

The new generation is enduring first-hand what will be imbedded in history books. Imagine the newly optimistic investors who got in before March. There’s a lot to learn from this year.

Number 1 rule for picking a university if you are a conservative is pick one that uses Blue Books. Then you can feel free to speak your mind in class, yet parrot all the Marxist Socialist dung your professors want to hear during testing.

Makes a good case for a gap year

Delay college? Learn online on coursera or edXOnline while this uncertainty persists, no?

These losers can't even pick a gender, let alone a college, ToughScene

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