10 Schools Meeting

ChoatieMom
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:17:18 +0000

To me, the biggest negative of the TSAO interviews is that the parent gets very little, if any, time to speak to the admissions officer.



Depends on where you’re from. The TSAO event we attended had fewer than 50 people, about 20 kids, and I only saw two other students interviewing other than our son. There was plenty of time to talk to whomever we wanted to speak with. Our son interviewed with two schools there, but Choate was not on his radar until this event. The Choate rep’s interest and interaction with our family changed all that. He interviewed later with an alum at a local Starbucks but didn’t set foot on campus until revisit days. He’s now starting his third year and, luckily, we’ve found Choate to be the “home” we thought it would be after attending the TSAO event.

If you are from the northeast, CA, or TX then @Chathan is probably right—attendance will be high and you may get only a cursory feel for the school. You can rely on these events for a ton of information, useful Q&A, and a sense of how much general interest there is in BS in your area, but there is no substitute for an actual campus visit. Wish we could have done so.