Freshman class sizes have to be way down right? If I were a parent to a kid of that age, I'd be encouraging them to take a gap year or knock out credits at a community college.
Some universities are preventing this by saying that your spot the next year is not guaranteed. So you would have to reapply. You will be competing with all incoming freshman and everyone that deferred. We have friends paying 60K for online school. They consider it to be paying 60K to hold their spot.
$60k for a single year? I can’t help but shake my head as the absurdity of that. We’ve done a disservice to younger generations if it cost that much for a single year of education.
That’s not a normal college expense, and in fact a lot of schools with expenses that high do so while offering means-based scholarships. So when you read a story about someone at a $60K school paying $60K, usually it’s a signal that you’re reading a story from a very wealthy individual circumstance — not to opine positive vs. negative but context is important.
The freshman class at the university I’m currently attending is the largest one they have ever had.
Now, we are a more “affordable “ state university, but it’s still $6k tuition for a semester, plus many people seem to have gotten duped into paying for campus housing even though it seemed like high chance classes would end up online one way or another.