There are schools that will never recover from this shutdown and the potential of a 2020 fall semester forced to remain online.
No room & board income from the students that decide to enroll or return.
How many students are now financially able to enroll or return?
Will parents be unwilling to pay top dollar for online learning?
How many students will take gap years?
Even with a decent endowment schools will struggle to recover.
Will parents keep students closer to home for fear of future shutdowns? If so then state flagship universities could be overrun with acceptances well beyond statistical norms. That would mean forced triples and quadruples in dorms during a potential second wave of the virus.
No room & board income from the students that decide to enroll or return.
How many students are now financially able to enroll or return?
Will parents be unwilling to pay top dollar for online learning?
How many students will take gap years?
Even with a decent endowment schools will struggle to recover.
Will parents keep students closer to home for fear of future shutdowns? If so then state flagship universities could be overrun with acceptances well beyond statistical norms. That would mean forced triples and quadruples in dorms during a potential second wave of the virus.
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