Rather than send separate emails out to everyone who has asked me for a list of resources for parents, students, teachers and college counselors regarding changes in college admissions policies, dates, tours and applications — all things college — I am going to post the links I’ve found most useful here with a description of what each link offers and what’s good about it.

First off, the go-to for changes in college admissions is NACAC, specifically the area that is providing updates on colleges.

We need to crowdsource information and research — for college admissions — as well as for the virus itself.

Below is a spreadsheet of activities 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students can get involved in during this interim period of distance learning.  These are great and important!!

Here is an article in The New York Times on how parents can help support their college students’ experience with online learning:

Here are COVID updates from the College Board regarding SAT dates and options as well as AP tests:  https://pages.collegeboard.org/collegeboard-covid-19-updates

Here’s a Twitter roundup of what (certain) colleges are saying about a pandemic’d fall:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1253007206519275520.html

Here’s Selingo’s latest.  Sign up for future ones here and explore his website.

 

One option is reductions in tuition for online model: 

What’s next: Once a decision is made about what the fall will look like in terms of operations, the next big decision is how anything short of a regular, on-campus experience will be priced. Most colleges want to keep their tuition levels steady—and for good reason. Their instructional costs remain the same, and in many cases have increased because of technology.  When I posted a poll on Twitter last night, many agreed that there shouldn’t be a tuition cut this fall. But on some campuses, students and parents are already clamoring for one, even this spring, as The Washington Post’s Nick Anderson recently reported.