COVER STORY This issue: The Lost Year. On track for college before the pandemic, some high school seniors lost more than time. The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s College application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged. Joseph never got to take the admissions test. She barely knows her high school teachers now that she takes all her classes online at home in Islip Terrace, N.Y. She missed out on seasons of varsity cross-country and track…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.