17yr Old Doing College Visits Alone?

LBowie
Sat, 26 May 2012 21:22:17 +0000

Maybe I am just not that picky. Of the 8 or so schools my son and I visited together, there was only one that I had a very strong aversion to. The rest I would have been fine with. He, on the other hand, disliked 2 of them. Our dislikes did not overlap. My dislike was based on what I felt the school was not investing in adequately (they seemed to invest in sports at the expense of basic infrastructure and who knows what else). His dislikes had more to do with the campus vibe.

My benchmark for a school is always their library. I made a point of visiting the library to see if the school seemed to value having an up-to-date place for students to study or do research. If the library did not measure up, it was off the list. Only one school did not make the cut!