tokenadult

When you're starting to think about what colleges to apply to.

tokenadult

Northwestern is beginning to post its schedule.

Northwestern Comes to You, Office of Undergraduate Admission - Northwestern University

philoglossia

On the "Exploring College Options" webpage, when I click on my state, I can't find a "Register" link in the blurb that comes up. The date is about 7 weeks away. Does this just mean they haven't set up the registration yet, or am I missing something on the page?

tokenadult

Most likely that means that they haven't set up the registration yet. It has always been working in time before the meetings in past years.

4Giggles

tokenadult- your info has been fantastic and very helpful as D would like to explore the whole country! Do you suggest having anything to give reps? such as a resume or preprinted info? Any suggestions for schools you know do not have a good track record with your HS?

tokenadult

An Exploring College Options kind of information session is not really a setting for giving admission officers any information about the student other than filling out a contact card (which will put you on the mailing list of all the colleges in the information session consortium). My preferred approach is to listen to the general session (last year I asked one question to the whole panel, a question that came up often on CC last year), and then when the general session breaks into small groups specific to each college, go and listen with the group of people around one particular college admission officer. If your child and spouse are both there with you, you can "divide and conquer" by going to different corners of the room. I just like to stand and listen, although for one particular college we now take care to introduce ourselves to the admission officer, just by walking up and saying hello.

If your child's high school is not well known to the college, much of the stuff homeschoolers do to get on the radar screen will apply--taking external tests such as SAT Subject Tests or AP tests, participating in extracurriculars with national-level competitions, and writing really thorough essays. The College Board mailing lists for colleges

http://professionals.collegeboard.co...ecruitment/sss

are based on all the different College Board tests that students take, so doing well on multiple tests helps a student get more recruiting letters.

4Giggles

Is there a difference between all those college letters and recruiting letters?

tokenadult

Oh, I'm just referring to the general letters about colleges that most students get dozens of. Sometimes by replying specifically to some of those, you can get more detailed information. In between my oldest son's "safety" college and the "reach" schools he has known about for the longest, we are requesting information from some other colleges with good programs (I DON'T call them "match" colleges) that we know less about, as those colleges send out those letters, which I called recruitment letters in my previous post. Now one college has replied with a specific email address to reach the department that would be of most interest to my son at that college. I don't think he has sent out any email to the department yet. That college doesn't appear to travel to this part of the country to conduct information sessions, but it's reasonably well known nationally.

tokenadult

The Exploring Educational Excellence consortium of Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Rice University has announced its spring 2008 travel schedule.

Exploring Educational Excellence

The R.S.V.P. links on the site under

Exploring Educational Excellence-Information Sessions

don't appear to be working yet, but they should be soon.

tokenadult

Rice University's visit schedule is up

Rice University | Prospective Students

with more details promised soon.

tokenadult

Brown University has put up its schedule. Most meetings are joint meetings with Yale and MIT.

Brown Admission: Brown Near You, Spring 2008

tokenadult

My son received a postcard today inviting him to a meeting called An Evening with Lawrence from Lawrence University. He is not in the market for liberal arts colleges in Wisconsin, but I'll post here the webpage

Lawrence Admissions - Find Events Near You

where you can find other Lawrence events. If you see a postcard in your mail inviting you to a local college information session, could you kindly post that news to this thread, as a clue that there may be other meetings of that kind in other parts of the country? I'll try to search websites, as I searched Lawrence's site, to find the general links with the overall national schedule.

tokenadult

Drexel has events listed.

Drexel University | Events | Admissions Events

So does Clark:

http://www.clarku.edu/admissions/cotr/bydate.cfm

tokenadult

Cornell's info session list for spring 2008 is up.

Cornell University Undergraduate Admissions Office - EVENTS

tokenadult

Harvard's sessions are now posted.

Harvard College Admissions Office: Harvard in Your Hometown