17yr Old Doing College Visits Alone?

Lakemom
Sat, 26 May 2012 20:03:29 +0000

LBowie, I didn’t do the visits. My husband and son went. I know more than once, because he was present, when someone was talking about a particular project the students work on my husband might comment that he wouldn’t might seeing that. The person would then say okay let me show you.

My husband and son did not always do the school tour. We took a different tack. I made appointments for them with someone from the dept that my son wanting to major in and they would meet with someone there first. Then if that went well, they would do the school tour. If that didn’t, they left because it didn’t matter how the rest of the school was if the area of my son’s interest was not a match.

I think in part it depends on how many and where the schools are a student is applying to. My son only visited maybe 7 schools, all driving distance from our house so the expenses to make visits weren’t great. I suppose if you are applying to schools all over then it can get costly for more than one to go.