Decision Day Is Almost Here. Here's How To Decide For An Unknown Future

Life Kit: Parenting

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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While it's hard to know what college will look like this fall, college decision day is almost here. So what can students do to make a sound choice during this uncertain time? Education reporter Elissa Nadworny gives an update on what incoming college students need to know about appealing financial aid, changing plans and thinking through a gap year.

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0:44.8	This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Decision Day, when soon-to-be college students pick
0:51.1	which school they're going to, has been pushed back because of the coronavirus
0:55.5	pandemic. And they're making this big decision at a time when the future looks unstable.
1:01.6	We know people who get a degree make more money in the long term. And the more people that we can
1:06.7	get trained up into the jobs that we need, the better our economy is going to be. There are a lot of families who are hurting right now and who need the paycheck more than they
1:15.0	need credits.
1:16.7	That's Alyssa NADWarnie.
1:18.0	She covers higher ed for NPR, and she's going to walk us through how to make that
1:21.8	decision.
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1:44.1	Hey, Alyssa. Hey, Andrew. All right. So May 1st is normally known as Decision Day, but now what does
1:51.9	the new time on look like? Yeah, so because of the pandemic, about 400 schools have pushed
1:58.1	the deposit deadline to June 1st, so students and families now have more time to make these decisions.
2:03.8	But even beyond those deadlines, colleges are being flexible. We've seen some schools say they'll honor their deposit for future semesters if they decide not to enroll.
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