Advice about college visits

NotMamaRose
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:20:58 +0000

Another quick question for those of you who have done this already:

I have been given advice from others which says basically that admission to BFA programs in MT is so competitive that it does not make sense to invest time and money and emotion in visiting campuses and programs. Rather, it makes more sense to just wait and have my D audition for the dozen or so programs on her “list,” and then, if she is fortunate enough to get into more than one, visit them.

What say you guys? I see the wisdom in that, but it also feels a little negative to me. Though I know it does not behoove kids to get overly attached to one or two programs, it also seems to me that visiting and learning about various places is a healthy part of the college admissions process. In addition, it could be that some of the colleges on her current “it” list will strike her, once we are there, as places she does not want to be, and others that are lower on the list might jump higher due to that “je ne said quoi” factor that we have all experienced.