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Can any current students comment on why you didn’t take the year off? It just seems like such a waste / not worth it.

I'm a late-stage PhD student, and thus academically unaffected. However, virtually all of my undergraduate friends did take the year off.

Getting re enrolled next year will be twice as hard?

Is that true? I don’t know what COVID policies are but back in my day you could generally take a year off and come back without needing to reapply. Of course if everyone did that this year, it would create problems so I imagine colleges are trying to disincentivize it?

> Of course if everyone did that this year, it would create problems so I imagine colleges are trying to disincentivize it?

I think they would be disincentivising it so they still hve revenue this year. But yes if the admissions per year is fixed a lot of people won't get admitted next year

Yes but my point is you don’t need to be readmitted if you take time off. At least under normal circumstances.

There is already a disincentive: you don't get your degree until you finish.

Nope, Brown generously gives you five years before you have to apply again. You just have to remember to go back...

https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/policies/leav...

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