IceQube

Which colleges, in your experience, have offered reimbursement for travel expenses incurred while visiting?

celesteroberts

I don't know about travel costs, but at U Chicago, if you approach the desk in admissions to ask about possibility of eating in a dorm cafeteria for the experience, they'll give you a ticket for a free meal. And the food in the south dorm cafeteria where they sent us is amazing, good enough to convince one to enroll. Maybe this is standard at many colleges? They also give anyone who asks, the free t-shirt that they send in the mail. If you are able to travel on your own, you may be able to save hotel costs by arranging with admissions to do overnights with students.

Soonermom95

University of Oklahoma will put you up in a hotel for one night, breakfast buffet included. They also take you to eat lunch in the cafeteria, which is really wonderful. From time to time, they have tickets to Sooner football games available. They treat NMSF very well.

perazziman

CMU offered upto $600 for travel expenses + 3 days room and board. we have declined the offer to visit, since son has not decided if he wants to attend as we understand they include loans and work study in their financial aid package. All the same, this was a very nice jesture by CMU so son may apply to see what they offer.

Oklahoma invited us parents and our son for a dinner at a nice restaurant in our city. Son is now seriously considering Oklahoma.

UT offered transportation, weeekend of room and board and tickets to a game.

Soonermom95

Yes, I forgot to mention that OU also had a really nice recruiting dinner at a local restaurant for area NMSFs.

marciemi

As mentioned in the other thread, my son also received the offer to have his airfare reimbursed from Arizona State and stay overnight with a student during the visit. No contact here though from CMU, which is strange since he sent them his scores (SAT Subject Test and ACT).

IceQube

By CMU I'm going to assume you meant Central Michigan and not Carnegie Mellon.

perazziman

i was referring to carnegie mellon.

rmldad

ASU is the only school that has offered my twin NMSF reimbursement to visit, however we have been invited to a number of fancy dinners to describe Honors programs.

University of South Carolina, University of Louisville, University of Kentucky and Oklahoma University have all visited our area and invited us to high priced restaurants for their presentations.

mamabear1234

Carleton offered $100 travel reimbursement. Not sure if it was based on NM or sent to everybody though. We may take advantage of it at some point this winter.

mom2collegekids

I've noticed that a number of schools that offered these trips 5+ years ago when my son was NMSF are no longer doing so. I guess it got too expensive when too many kids took the free trip with only modest interest in actually attending.

PA-C

Well I just feel cheated now that CMU didn't offer my NMSF son with top sat scores any visiting assistance!

mom2collegekids

^^^

Some schools offer if the student is a URM...don't know if that was the case above.

perazziman

Quite right M2CK, son is a nmsf who is also a national hispanic scholar. I guess, it is not enough to just be a nmsf these days. One has to either start from poor ethnic schools and make it to nmsf or start at mainstream schools and win something bigger than nmsf to catch the breaks at the top universities. However, I am not sure CMU is an institution that cheats anyone PA-C.

carimama

^they have to whittle it down a bit, I presume. Aren't there over 15K NMSF's?? They can't afford to offer blanket travel to that many kids.