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Students, families try to make decisions about coming back to college despite endless questions

Laurie and Scott Dubin, along with their daughter Lindsay, stood outside a rented RV last Saturday with a heap of luggage.

They were about to start the 2,000-mile drive from the San Francisco Bay Area to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Lindsay would start her freshman year at her dream school in the middle of a pandemic.

“I hope school isn’t canceled from Saturday until then,” Laurie Dubin had said earlier that week.