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Mar. 27th, 2020 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI talked to the counselor at Skyline who does all of the college related stuff. I mainly wanted to find out if there's any talk from colleges about changes that may be needed for kids Cordelia's age who will be applying to colleges this fall. I knew already that nobody had any firm decisions/policies and that part of that would be not knowing what the timeline will look like. I just wanted some reassurance that the admissions offices have the issue somewhere on their radar.
Here's an excerpt from her response:
Yes, I have been talking with college admissions offices, and although some have not made official changes for testing, ALL of them understand we may be looking at later dates for tests and/or going test optional. This means they have to go with whatever mandates are out there, and they will do whatever they need to do to accommodate students' needs. My gut tells me that our larger institutions and highly selective schools will still try to seek scores, but they will have to accept scores, and therefore evaluate applicants, at a much later date. I can tell you that many of our MAC schools are already going test-optional. The same thing is happening with private colleges. It seems from those that I have spoken with, colleges aren't posting anything yet, until they have a more clear idea of what the timeline is going to be. And obviously right now, none of us have that timeline yet. I would just keep watching Collegeboard and ACT.org postings just like the colleges are doing. Sorry, we do not have guidelines yet.
I'm fairly sure that 'MAC schools' refers to Mid-American Conference schools which includes two schools Cordelia intends to apply to. I suspect that 'larger institutions and highly selective schools' covers two of the remaining three. All four are state schools, so those two may be affected by state policy changes in between now and application time. The last school is a private college, so who knows what they're going to do?
My sister is worried about her business. She owns and operates a small frame shop in the Atlanta area. She's only been open a couple of years, but before that she managed a frame store that closed when the owners retired. She had considerable client carry-over. Still, she's going to need help staying afloat through this. Even once she re-opens, there's not going to be a lot of business for a while because getting things framed isn't likely to make many immediate to-do lists.
My brother has been designated as providing essential services which makes sense. He's a social worker who does case management for a lot of people who have some combination of psychiatric, developmental, and addiction issues that mean that they need regular check-ins, under normal conditions, to be sure that they're getting their medications (and not having unexpected side-effects), managing co-existing conditions, making and going to appointments, not getting evicted, etc.
When he does home visits and such, he's using masks that he had leftover from doing home renovations. I think he's assuming that he'll get it sooner rather than later, but he's hoping not to give it to other clients. There isn't really anybody who can take over his work for him if he gets really sick because his organization is chronically understaffed (low pay, high burnout rate).
I haven't heard from my much younger half-sister. She's in New York City and (I think) working as a nanny. She and I don't know each other well because we've never spent more than a few hours in the same place at the same time.
Scott has vacation scheduled for next week. He's going to start by taking a look at the stove. After that, he's probably going to spend a lot of time looking for toilet paper. Our sleep/wake schedule has worked against us on that one, I think, so the flexibility to go out early in the morning may help.
We're also planning to check in with the older ladies living to either side of us in order to find out if they need anything. I think they've both got local family and church communities, but we're right next door. When Scott's got to go out anyway, him picking things up for them could make sense anyway. One of the ladies has a sister who lives across the street, and she might find this sort of help useful, too. The third lady has a grandson who was in Cordelia's class in elementary school, and it may well be that he's already running errands for her and her sister. I don't know.
I keep thinking of cooking projects and then realizing that I would need the oven for part of it and that the toaster oven will not be adequate.
Here's an excerpt from her response:
Yes, I have been talking with college admissions offices, and although some have not made official changes for testing, ALL of them understand we may be looking at later dates for tests and/or going test optional. This means they have to go with whatever mandates are out there, and they will do whatever they need to do to accommodate students' needs. My gut tells me that our larger institutions and highly selective schools will still try to seek scores, but they will have to accept scores, and therefore evaluate applicants, at a much later date. I can tell you that many of our MAC schools are already going test-optional. The same thing is happening with private colleges. It seems from those that I have spoken with, colleges aren't posting anything yet, until they have a more clear idea of what the timeline is going to be. And obviously right now, none of us have that timeline yet. I would just keep watching Collegeboard and ACT.org postings just like the colleges are doing. Sorry, we do not have guidelines yet.
I'm fairly sure that 'MAC schools' refers to Mid-American Conference schools which includes two schools Cordelia intends to apply to. I suspect that 'larger institutions and highly selective schools' covers two of the remaining three. All four are state schools, so those two may be affected by state policy changes in between now and application time. The last school is a private college, so who knows what they're going to do?
My sister is worried about her business. She owns and operates a small frame shop in the Atlanta area. She's only been open a couple of years, but before that she managed a frame store that closed when the owners retired. She had considerable client carry-over. Still, she's going to need help staying afloat through this. Even once she re-opens, there's not going to be a lot of business for a while because getting things framed isn't likely to make many immediate to-do lists.
My brother has been designated as providing essential services which makes sense. He's a social worker who does case management for a lot of people who have some combination of psychiatric, developmental, and addiction issues that mean that they need regular check-ins, under normal conditions, to be sure that they're getting their medications (and not having unexpected side-effects), managing co-existing conditions, making and going to appointments, not getting evicted, etc.
When he does home visits and such, he's using masks that he had leftover from doing home renovations. I think he's assuming that he'll get it sooner rather than later, but he's hoping not to give it to other clients. There isn't really anybody who can take over his work for him if he gets really sick because his organization is chronically understaffed (low pay, high burnout rate).
I haven't heard from my much younger half-sister. She's in New York City and (I think) working as a nanny. She and I don't know each other well because we've never spent more than a few hours in the same place at the same time.
Scott has vacation scheduled for next week. He's going to start by taking a look at the stove. After that, he's probably going to spend a lot of time looking for toilet paper. Our sleep/wake schedule has worked against us on that one, I think, so the flexibility to go out early in the morning may help.
We're also planning to check in with the older ladies living to either side of us in order to find out if they need anything. I think they've both got local family and church communities, but we're right next door. When Scott's got to go out anyway, him picking things up for them could make sense anyway. One of the ladies has a sister who lives across the street, and she might find this sort of help useful, too. The third lady has a grandson who was in Cordelia's class in elementary school, and it may well be that he's already running errands for her and her sister. I don't know.
I keep thinking of cooking projects and then realizing that I would need the oven for part of it and that the toaster oven will not be adequate.
