He received 17 acceptance letters in all, including one from each of the eight Ivy League universities, a remarkable feat. The first, from Yale University, arrived in December, before the coronavirus upended the lives of high school seniors across the country. Mr. McFarland, 18, committed to Yale in early May, when few people imagined that the pandemic would still be raging in the fall. All of this has incoming first-year students like Mr. McFarland rethinking the choices they made before the pandemic. “When a lot of seniors were making college decisions, we were mainly considering which schools would be the best for us without even really considering the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on a first year.”

Source: International New York Times July 17, 2020 16:41 UTC