Incoming freshmen at Georgetown University have sent an open letter to administrators calling for the gap-year request deadline to be pushed back.It's unclear how this will impact students accepted off the waitlist.Jillian Seitz, an 18-year-old from California, is an incoming freshmen at Georgetown University. After spending the end of high school online, she began to worry about starting college virtually.
Business Insider was unable to confirm the prior language of the form, and Georgetown did not respond to requests for comment on the form being edited, or on how the deferral process could work for waitlisted students., incoming freshmen want more flexibility — and in some cases they're struggling to get it.
Seven of the students behind the letter told Business Insider that it has been received by administrators, and policy suggestions from the letter on the agenda for discussion by Georgetown University Student Association. One of those students, Bella Fassett, told both The Hoya and Business Insider that the letter was inspired by. That letter asks that Harvard postpone the semester instead of conducting it online.
"I was a little frustrated too, because to me it sounds like a totally understandable reason to take a gap year," Seitz said.Where deferrals currently stand "I don't even know if any visas are going to be granted," Ebrahim said. He added that it's unclear what air travel will look like in August. He was only able to find the application through a friend who had applied for one the year prior; they sent him the previous year's application, and he swapped out 2019 for 2020 in the URL link. But 18-year-old Kevin Zhang, who also successfully deferred, received the application link from his admissions counselor.
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