Advice about college visits

marianne406
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:43:18 +0000

We went through the same thing last year. We tried to visit the safety schools and were able to eliminate several of them. As far as the BFA programs that were more competitive, my D decided to use her time and energy to research from home and talk to others who had attended the schools. We then went to the Unifieds in Chicago and made the visits to the ones she was still interested in after the acceptances. She has seen several girls from her theatre school visit schools, fall in love with them, and then not get in. So…she decided to wait and see who really wanted her too and then choose from there. This worked out fine for us but it did make for a very FRANTIC April which is an already busy month for Seniors. Since we live in Montana there were some that we didn’t get to at all.

I think it is different for everyone depending on where you live and how much time and money you have to spend on this adventure. We didn’t have the money to spend on the trips to visit all of the schools.

I do agree that the visit is very important no matter when it happens. There is a certain feeling that they get about whether or not they belong.

Good-luck!