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02-12-2008, 09:37 PM
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| The online virtual college fair is holding a second session March 25 and 26. College Search - CollegeWeekLive, the Virtual College Fair
* Live Video Sessions with Admissions Experts
* Real-Time Q&A with Admissions Counselors
* A Virtual Exhibit Hall and College Booths
* Video Chat with Current College Students | 
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02-13-2008, 09:38 AM
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03-15-2008, 08:08 PM
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| Update as of 15 March 2008
Some colleges form consortia with other colleges and travel together. Such joint information sessions are very interesting and pack a lot of information into one meeting. Sometimes one member of a consortium will post the joint travel schedule for all the colleges before any of the other consortium members do, so check each college website for the schedules.
Exploring College Options (Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Penn, Stanford) Exploring College Options
Eight of the Best Colleges Consortium (Claremont McKenna College, Colorado College, Connecticut College, Grinnell College, Haverford College, Kenyon College, Macalester College, Sarah Lawrence College) Eight of the Best, One The Road, Admission, Claremont McKenna College
Lutherancolleges.org Map & Schedule
Claremont Colleges Claremont Colleges Receptions, One The Road, Admission, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont McKenna College
And plenty of colleges schedule individual visits to college fairs or to stand-alone college information sessions.
Clark University Clark University | Admissions | Clark on the Road - Information Sessions
Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, IA) Off-Campus Events
Davidson College Davidson in Your Area
Georgetown University (showing schedule of Exploring College Options joint programs) Georgetown University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Harvard University (this tends to be updated rather late) Harvard College Admissions Office: Harvard in Your Hometown
Indiana University https://www.indiana.edu/~iuadmit/events/index.php
Johns Hopkins University Hopkins Undergraduate Admissions :: Visit :: Off-Campus Events
Knox College Knox on the Road - Knox College
Linfield College Campus Visit: Fairs and Visits
New York University NYU > Undergraduate Admissions > Explore NYU > Visiting Us > Off-Campus Visits
Northeastern University Visit Campus > NU In Your Area
Penn State Penn State Visits You! - Penn State Undergraduate Admissions
Purdue University Purdue University Undergraduate Admissions: visiting: Purdue Comes to You
Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah College of Art and Design > SCAD Information Sessions
University of Chicago (includes joint programs with Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Rice University) https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level2.asp?id=90
University of Miami Events in Your Area | University of Miami
University of Minnesota College Fairs
University of Pennsylvania (including Exploring College Options joint programs) Penn Admissions: Penn in Your Town
Yale University (listing joint events with Brown and MIT) http://admissions.yale.edu/events/
Please reply to this thread with your impressions of sessions that you attend. | |
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03-16-2008, 06:45 AM
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| Thanks for posting other events here. | |
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03-17-2008, 10:16 AM
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| Great idea to post these events here. My s and I went to several regional information sessions when he was a junior and found them to be very helpful. Some reps brought videos/slides with them while others did not. It got him thinking about what to look for in colleges. I liked the format much better than a college fair. More informative, not as noisy, and less crowds jockeying for position in front of their presentation table. | |
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03-17-2008, 01:11 PM
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| Thanks for the report about what attending those sessions did for your family. | |
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03-31-2008, 01:21 PM
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| 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. | |
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04-01-2008, 12:35 PM
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| Rice University's visit schedule is up Rice University | Prospective Students
with more details promised soon. | |
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04-01-2008, 12:38 PM
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| Brown University has put up its schedule. Most meetings are joint meetings with Yale and MIT. Brown Admission: Brown Near You, Spring 2008 | |
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04-02-2008, 04:26 PM
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| 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. | |
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04-02-2008, 05:32 PM
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| Just saw this. D2 is attending a local MN college fair as we speak (write??)...100 colleges/unis represented at a local HS (Eastview) in the Twin Cities. Goes to 7:00 this evening and Wisconsin, Iowa, South and North Dakota,Michigan and Service Academies are listed as attending. Hope it helps!  | |
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04-02-2008, 06:12 PM
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| Yep, that's the MACAC fair. I visited it on the first evening, when it was at Minnetonka High School. | |
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04-03-2008, 08:43 AM
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| D2 liked meeting the school reps at the fair. Also liked teasing me and trying to make me feel guilty as she said most kids were with their parents...and of course she was on her own. My guilt has no bounds! Do most of you attend with your kids? | |
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04-03-2008, 09:38 AM
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| My oldest son was busy that evening that MACAC was in our end of town, so I attended WITHOUT him, while I dropped off another son at a soccer practice. Typically, now that my oldest son is older, we both go into a college fair and "divide and conquer" by going to different booths at the same time, meeting up for any general information sessions scheduled there. | |
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