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With hundreds of colleges extending their deposit deadlines due to the pandemic, May 1 means less than ever this year.

Colleges have released a flurry of statements saying that they will reopen campuses in the fall. Will that plan bear out?

Projection comes from the latest survey of college students and would-be college students and does not consider community colleges or foreign students. Figures are particularly bleak for minority students.

One in six students who'd planned to attend four-year colleges full-time no longer plan to do so, private polling says. Data show cause for concern even about those who've already put down deposits.

Survey finds they are skeptical of online-only options available now -- and perhaps in the fall -- and don't want to pay regular tuition rates.

University says it hopes to get students who had wanted to go far from home -- before COVID-19.

It is first Ivy to make the move but stresses that it's only for a year. Many other colleges switch as well.