When Back to School Meets Stay at Home

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a host of new financial and health challenges for those who intended to enroll in a program in fall of 2020. This analysis breaks down the pandemic’s effect on students’ plans in the fall. A key finding shows that 75 percent of households in which at least one member intended to take postsecondary classes responded to the pandemic by changing their plans. Some completely canceled them, while others changed the number of classes they took, enrolled in a different program or institution, or took classes in a different format.