Many students finishing a school year with online classes in the midst of coronavirus are thinking of taking a year off, or an alternative type of education.
. The decision, which will affect close to half a million students, was closely watched amid growing uncertainty about the traditional rituals of college life.
Colleges are usually happy to let students take a year off, Hartle said, with evidence suggesting that time off is often valuable for students. But that’s in a typical year, when the number of requests is low and administrators can predict how many students will enroll in the fall. This year, he said, “the concern is what happens if 20 percent of your students request a gap year?”
“I think it’s been a knee-jerk response to the prospect of things not going back to the old normal in the fall,” Harward said. “I don’t anticipate there will be nearly as many graduating seniors and families actually taking a year away as there are students asking the questions about it now.
Carter’s story is pretty typical. But this spring, students who never thought they would delay college are considering a break. The Gap Year Association’s online traffic has been 150 percent or more above normal, with hundreds of thousands of students expressing interest, Knight said: “It’s been kind of intense.”
One alternative is going to school somewhere closer and cheaper, especially if gap year programs can’t offer enriching experiences. Community colleges are anticipating students from four-year colleges signing up for classes in the fall.
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