USD doesn't hide the fact that our tuition rates and the expenses that we as students pay to attend the University of San Diego is a steep price. However, some of the primary reasons that students still choose to attend USD year after year is because the school offers smaller classrooms with more hands on support, making professors accessible during office hours, and promoting an environment that makes learning less stressful and more enjoyable. As students we understand this is an unprecedented time, but it is outrageous to expect students and their families to pay over $50,000 a year while we sit in our living room. There has been a lot of conversations amongst students about taking a gap semester, or even a full gap year if USD was to go fully online, as well as incoming freshman who don't want to spend their first year of college still at home with their parents. The best thing the school can do to retain as many students as possible, and hopefully prevent freshman from deciding that the University of San Diego isn't the appropriate school for them, is to lower the tuition rates to a more fair and just representation of the abysmal learning environment that is online schooling.