Read reports of students' on-campus voting with caution
Here at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, turnout at the on-campus precincts is way up from 2020, and I know of at least a few students who skipped class to wait on the hour-long lines. But it's worth be cautious about how you interpret those results.
For one thing, the COVID-19 pandemic meant that there were far fewer students on campus four years ago, so it's hard to make direct comparisons. And we can't necessarily read these results as representative of the college-aged demographic: Fewer than half of 18- to 24-year-olds are enrolled in colleges, and some of those students live at home or off campus. So reports from campuses are important, but they don't tell us how young voters are reacting in general.