Picking A College For The Fall? Here's How To Decide For An Unknown Future
Life Kit
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🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Lucio Neal from Peoria, Illinois, and my life hack to get through this COVID-19 pandemic |
| 0:09.0 | is while we're sitting in our house with nothing else to do. |
| 0:14.0 | Unsubscribe to all of that spam and mail of it in our inbox. |
| 0:19.0 | It's taken up some time, but it's kept me busy. |
| 0:23.0 | Have a great day! |
| 0:30.0 | This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. |
| 0:32.0 | Decision day. When soon-to-be college students pick which school they're going to, |
| 0:37.0 | has been pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 0:41.0 | And they're making this big decision at a time when the future looks unstable. |
| 0:46.0 | We know people who get it degree, make more money in the long term, |
| 0:50.0 | and the more people that we can get trained up into the jobs that we need, |
| 0:53.0 | the better our economy is going to be. |
| 0:55.0 | There are a lot of families who are hurting right now, |
| 0:57.0 | and who need the paycheck more than they need credits. |
| 1:01.0 | That's Alyssa Nat Warnie. She covers higher ed for NPR, |
| 1:04.0 | and she's going to walk us through how to make that decision. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey Alyssa. |
| 1:13.0 | Hey Andrew. |
| 1:15.0 | Alright, so May 1st is normally known as Decision Day, |
| 1:19.0 | but now what does the new time look like? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, so because of the pandemic, about 400 schools have pushed the deposit deadline to June 1st, |
| 1:29.0 | so students and families now have more time to make these decisions. |
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