DGS49
Diamond Member
Parents of today's high school class of 2020 surely must be contemplating the strategem of a Gap Year.
While acceptance at the college of one's choice is surely a thing to be treasured, spending that first year taking on-line classes at the exorbitant tuitions that will surely be demanded seems - shall we say - wasteful.
The suggestion implicitly begs the question of What to do during that Gap Year. Just work whatever job(s) can be found? Try to make a bit of academic progress? Are there any formal on-line programs planned for the huge number of students doing the same thing? One suspects that finding a decent job for a year - specifically this coming year - will be problematic, what with so many people out of work and looking at the same time.
And taking the thought process a bit further, what will happen when the 2020 grads want to start at the same time as the 2021 grads? Will those Fresh-person classes be overloaded? Will the selection criteria be enhanced as a result?
Will colleges renew the 2020 acceptance after a year's delay, or will your Gap Year student have to risk NOT being accepted next year?
What do you think?
While acceptance at the college of one's choice is surely a thing to be treasured, spending that first year taking on-line classes at the exorbitant tuitions that will surely be demanded seems - shall we say - wasteful.
The suggestion implicitly begs the question of What to do during that Gap Year. Just work whatever job(s) can be found? Try to make a bit of academic progress? Are there any formal on-line programs planned for the huge number of students doing the same thing? One suspects that finding a decent job for a year - specifically this coming year - will be problematic, what with so many people out of work and looking at the same time.
And taking the thought process a bit further, what will happen when the 2020 grads want to start at the same time as the 2021 grads? Will those Fresh-person classes be overloaded? Will the selection criteria be enhanced as a result?
Will colleges renew the 2020 acceptance after a year's delay, or will your Gap Year student have to risk NOT being accepted next year?
What do you think?