If she applied not that early, like on June or July, she could have more information, I’m sure there are some students having the same situation who applied under essential workers stream. The thing is that she breached the immigration law for over a month, the VO might overlook it or not, since neither of us is VO, no one can give an accurate answer, she could wait for a while see if there’s any severe consequences for those who applied early in May, before she receives AOR, she still has time to think about whether continue or withdraw the application. Cause according to the speed right now, if she applied on June or July, she might have to wait until the end of the year to actually receive AOR. Since they just started to process applications, there’s no application refusal reported anywhere.