Enrolling a freshman class whose members hail from every state — and any number of foreign countries — has long been a point of pride for some institutions. But this academic year, colleges are focused on students’ hometowns for a reason that has nothing to do with the profile of the Class of 2024.
That’s because some students — more than 400,000 of them — will be traveling to campus from states that are coronavirus hot spots.
Take Florida, a Covid-19 epicenter, for example. In 2018, Florida exported more than 15,000 students to attend public and private four-year colleges in other states. Meanwhile, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, which have largely brought their infection rates under control, have put 34 states and Puerto Rico on their travel-advisory list (as of August 6), which calls for people arriving in the tri-state area to quarantine for 14 days.
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