A Fraught College 'Decision Day'
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on |
| 0:09.0 | on WNYC and for our last minutes today your pre-D day calls. What do I mean by D day? |
| 0:17.9 | Decision day for those of you who are high school seniors or parents of high school |
| 0:22.0 | seniors because tomorrow is May 1st and you have to |
| 0:26.4 | have decided where you're going to college next fall or where your kids are going to college |
| 0:32.0 | that joint family decision? |
| 0:34.3 | Are you still figuring it out? |
| 0:35.8 | Have you figured it out? |
| 0:37.0 | What's on your mind as you're making this decision? |
| 0:39.4 | Maybe even at the last minute. |
| 0:41.5 | 212433, WNYC 212 433 962. |
| 0:49.3 | And so if you or your child is planning on attending college for the first time in the fall, |
| 0:57.8 | have you made your decision yet? |
| 0:59.3 | Maybe it's an easy choice if you got into your dream school and you have the funds figured out. |
| 1:03.6 | But this time of year is also coming with a lot of disappointment and some issues in the |
| 1:08.1 | news that are affecting people's plans. |
| 1:12.0 | We did a whole segment recently on FAFSA, the debacle with a federal |
| 1:19.5 | financial student aid form. We acknowledge that many schools are pushing their |
| 1:23.0 | decision day back from May 1st after glitches in the Federal Student Aid Forum |
| 1:27.6 | delayed a lot of the offers. Cuny has extended its deadline to June 1st, and if you haven't heard that yet, Amherst and Purdue, May 15th. |
| 1:41.2 | However, all the Ivies have kept May 1st as their decision day, so this is kind of all over the map. |
| 1:47.6 | So how has the FAFSA situation affected your D-Day, Decision Day planning, and also with the protests on college |
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