Educators and policymakers have for decades endeavored to increase access to postsecondary education, aware that more and more jobs were requiring some amount of education after high school. Between 1983 and 2021, the percentage of jobs that required some postsecondary education more than doubled, and this trend is expected to continue. Despite this and the favorable economic returns, the high cost of postsecondary education has been a barrier for many students. The widespread disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic created additional barriers for some students. Enrollments at post-secondary institutions declined in the initial years of the pandemic raising concerns that the pandemic lessened the value that college-aged persons placed on postsecondary education. In this brief, we focused on one slice of the college-age population--Virginia high school completers between 2010 and 2022. We examined how the rate at which they transitioned to postsecondary education changed with the pandemic, both their likelihood of enrolling and the type of institutions in which they enrolled. While the pandemic appeared not to have impacted the high school completion rate, it did decrease the share of completers who transitioned to postsecondary education. Only 63% of students who completed high school in spring 2022 had enrolled in a postsecondary institution within 16 months of leaving high school, down 5.6 percentage points compared to the 2018 high school completer cohort. The pandemic also shifted enrollments from in-state to out-of-state and from 2-year to 4-year institutions. Policymakers might consider programs and policies to help reverse these trends, programs like the Get A Skill, Get A Job, Get Ahead (G3) program administered by the Virginia Community College System that provides financial support for postsecondary education to individuals from low-income households. More data are needed--data on additional cohorts and data tracking completers over a longer period--to determine if these changes mark a paradigm shift away from postsecondary education or if postsecondary transitions will return to prepandemic levels.