I just went to the Michigan athletic website and looked at the rosters of the women's teams. What immediately stands out is that the photos of a number of athletes on the Field Hockey and Lacrosse teams have been removed. All of the removed photos are of freshman, and yes, one of the athletes is from England.
I don't point this out in an effort to expose the identity of patient zero (who must be devasted over the situation). It seems reasonable to surmise, however, that if patient zero is indeed a freshman living in a dormitory, then there are probably quite a few people who have been exposed to her and the UK variant of the virus. So the handful of reported cases is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
My wife and I grew up in the Detroit area and we each have two degrees from UM, but we now live in VA and have four kids who attend out of state public universities (two at UM). I have had all of my kids take a few lower-level general electives online over their summers at a Virginia community college in addition to their regular college classes because the economic disparity is significant.
As an example, my kids have taken three-credit classes at Michigan over the summer, and out of state tuition was over $6000. Meanwhile, tuition for a three-credit class at a community college is less than $500. Once you get into major-specific classes and other upper-level requirements, community college classes are not an option, but for picking up 15 to 30 general elective credits, it is a very compelling option financially.
Additionally, public universities make it easier to transfer community college credit than most private universities. Michigan, for example, has a transfer credit website that lists classes across the country that are "pre-approved".
My two kids at Michigan picked community college classes from this website before enrolling in them, and Michigan accepted all the credits without question. My daughter is graduating from Michigan this semester, and she completed her undergraduate studies in 3 years thanks in part to the supplemental community college classes.
So - for parents who have high school seniors or freshmen in college (my youngest is finishing his freshman year at UC Berkeley online) AND are paying out of state or private tuition, there will be a difficult decision to make if their students' universities are online in the fall. Paying up to $2000 per credit hour for an online class at Michigan or UC Berkeley seems crazy economically when there is another option of paying a few hundred dollars per credit hour for classes that their current or future university will accept.
I cut the cord over a year ago. You have mentioned a number of compelling benefits for switching from cable/satellite to streaming (and YoutubeTV in particular), but at least for the moment, there are several other incredibly beneficial aspects to Youtube TV if you have a large home or many TVs, multiple homes, and/or college or adult children who live away from home.
I have a relatively large home with TV's in a master bedroom, guest master, home theater, gym, family room, kitchen, and several kid bedrooms. Having to rent and place cable boxes with each of those TVs was maddening. With YTTV, I either use streaming boxes (Apple TV or Roku Ultra) or Roku TVs (TVs with the Roku software built in, which is actually a fantastic value) and so I now have incredible flexibility regarding both number of TVs and room placement.
I have a vacation home, and for years, I paid for Cable in two locations. When I switched to YTTV, I not only dropped the Cable, but I also decided to drop the internet in the vacation home (it was a bundle) and see if I could possibly get by with using a portable Myfi from Verizon. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Myfi worked pretty well. Some initial buffering, but once the video loaded, the streaming was generally smooth.
Finally, at least for the time being, it turns out that Google allows you to share your YTTV with up to 5 additional friends/family members. My wife and I live in Virginia, but we have 3 children in college (two in AA and one at Berkeley) and one living in Los Angeles. Each of my children has their own YTTV account with unlimited DVR capability. The only issue we have discovered is relatively easy (thus far) to resolve. Every once in a while, YTTV has told each of my kids that their access to YTTV is restricted because they have not logged into their account from their home area in a while. But thus far, all I have needed to do is open up YTTV from a web browser in my VA home and log in as them, and their full service is quickly restored.
When you put those three additional benefits together, the utility I get from my single $50/month YTTV account is pretty amazing.
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I just went to the Michigan athletic website and looked at the rosters of the women's teams. What immediately stands out is that the photos of a number of athletes on the Field Hockey and Lacrosse teams have been removed. All of the removed photos are of freshman, and yes, one of the athletes is from England.
I don't point this out in an effort to expose the identity of patient zero (who must be devasted over the situation). It seems reasonable to surmise, however, that if patient zero is indeed a freshman living in a dormitory, then there are probably quite a few people who have been exposed to her and the UK variant of the virus. So the handful of reported cases is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
My wife and I grew up in the Detroit area and we each have two degrees from UM, but we now live in VA and have four kids who attend out of state public universities (two at UM). I have had all of my kids take a few lower-level general electives online over their summers at a Virginia community college in addition to their regular college classes because the economic disparity is significant.
As an example, my kids have taken three-credit classes at Michigan over the summer, and out of state tuition was over $6000. Meanwhile, tuition for a three-credit class at a community college is less than $500. Once you get into major-specific classes and other upper-level requirements, community college classes are not an option, but for picking up 15 to 30 general elective credits, it is a very compelling option financially.
Additionally, public universities make it easier to transfer community college credit than most private universities. Michigan, for example, has a transfer credit website that lists classes across the country that are "pre-approved".
https://www.ugadmiss.umich.edu/TCE/Public/CT_TCESearch.aspx
My two kids at Michigan picked community college classes from this website before enrolling in them, and Michigan accepted all the credits without question. My daughter is graduating from Michigan this semester, and she completed her undergraduate studies in 3 years thanks in part to the supplemental community college classes.
So - for parents who have high school seniors or freshmen in college (my youngest is finishing his freshman year at UC Berkeley online) AND are paying out of state or private tuition, there will be a difficult decision to make if their students' universities are online in the fall. Paying up to $2000 per credit hour for an online class at Michigan or UC Berkeley seems crazy economically when there is another option of paying a few hundred dollars per credit hour for classes that their current or future university will accept.
Best of luck
I cut the cord over a year ago. You have mentioned a number of compelling benefits for switching from cable/satellite to streaming (and YoutubeTV in particular), but at least for the moment, there are several other incredibly beneficial aspects to Youtube TV if you have a large home or many TVs, multiple homes, and/or college or adult children who live away from home.
I have a relatively large home with TV's in a master bedroom, guest master, home theater, gym, family room, kitchen, and several kid bedrooms. Having to rent and place cable boxes with each of those TVs was maddening. With YTTV, I either use streaming boxes (Apple TV or Roku Ultra) or Roku TVs (TVs with the Roku software built in, which is actually a fantastic value) and so I now have incredible flexibility regarding both number of TVs and room placement.
I have a vacation home, and for years, I paid for Cable in two locations. When I switched to YTTV, I not only dropped the Cable, but I also decided to drop the internet in the vacation home (it was a bundle) and see if I could possibly get by with using a portable Myfi from Verizon. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Myfi worked pretty well. Some initial buffering, but once the video loaded, the streaming was generally smooth.
Finally, at least for the time being, it turns out that Google allows you to share your YTTV with up to 5 additional friends/family members. My wife and I live in Virginia, but we have 3 children in college (two in AA and one at Berkeley) and one living in Los Angeles. Each of my children has their own YTTV account with unlimited DVR capability. The only issue we have discovered is relatively easy (thus far) to resolve. Every once in a while, YTTV has told each of my kids that their access to YTTV is restricted because they have not logged into their account from their home area in a while. But thus far, all I have needed to do is open up YTTV from a web browser in my VA home and log in as them, and their full service is quickly restored.
When you put those three additional benefits together, the utility I get from my single $50/month YTTV account is pretty amazing.