Graduation, Financial Aid, Admissions — For This Year's College-Bound, The Future Is In Turmoil
Colleges have extended deposit deadlines, the SAT and ACT are canceling testing dates and students and their families are navigating financial decisions amid the uncertainty.
This spring was supposed to be an exciting time for Xander Christou. He's a senior in high school in Austin, Texas, and was looking forward to all the fun: prom, senior skip day and of course, graduation.
But all that's now out the window. "There's a sense that it's incomplete," says Christou. The school district has closed and Christou says he has this feeling that a unique chapter in his life — senior year — is slipping away. "They're just parts that we may never get to experience." One big disruption: any attempt at making plans for next year. "We're in the midst of college decisions," he says, and the coronavirus has "really thrown a wrench into a number of things."
