No doubt, lots of CCers will be attending events like “prospective days” and “accepted student weekends” in the next month. Do you plan to meet up with fellow CCers? Anything we can do to make linking up easier?
(We’ve had feedback in past years from admissions people who couldn’t figure out how these students from all over the place seemed to be old friends!)
By the way, I HIGHLY recommend attending these events if you are able to. They tend to be fun - no stress, everyone is accepted, and the college is trying to impress both students and parents to try to close the deal. These are usually far better and much more structured than a typical visit. Plus, you’ll get to meet your potential classmates and see if they are the kind of people you want to spend four years with.
I think we’ve got a misunderstanding here… we’re expecting that CC members will meet on campus in groups at accepted student events, which are certainly well-supervised public events. Sorry if there was any confusion.
So, I’ve been accepted at a school ED. Do you think going to a weekend is still worth it? I live in-state, so I wouldn’t have to purchase a plane ticket or anything, but since I’m legally bound to attend the purpose of the weekend doesn’t necessarily apply to me. However, I never did an overnight and it would be nice to meet potential classmates. Do you guys think I should go?
This is a good idea. As long as the events are public and the sole purpose is meeting other accepted applicants, I don’t see how this can hurt.
I got to meet another CCer this past summer, and it was a good experience. We met at a hotel lobby (public place) and shared a nice chat for about half an hour. It was informative on my part because this CCer was a year older than me and had applied to college, so I got a lot of helpful advice.
FB, I think the main advantage would be spending some time with future classmates and getting a little extra familiarity with the school. When you arrive in the fall you’ll know some people and have a better idea of where stuff is. Not essential, but probably fun.
it’s a good idea! it’s kinda like facebook networking: you know, when you join the “Harvard Class of 2011!” groups and you friend/chat with your future classmates so you won’t be COMPLETELY alone come next school year
I think its a good idea. I only met one of the CCers who go to my school in person, and we’re in the same dorm, but we haven’t ever really talked. On the other hand, I’m now good friends with a couple of people I met on facebook and another message board first. I also arranged to meet two of them who were visiting my area before school started. If you do it in a public place, it’s perfectly fine, I think. We met in a Starbucks in their hotel’s lobby, and had lunch. One of them is still my friend, but I don’t really talk to the other anymore. However, it’s nice, because if it weren’t for that, I would have gone to college knowing no one. By meeting people on facebook and other online sites, I didn’t feel so alone the first couple of days until I started finding more friends.
I think it’s ok if internet acquaintances want to meet each other in real life, but they should not get too excited about it: they should know that just because they seem like they along through a message board doesn’t mean they will click in real life. There are lots of things about people you cannot see through a few pixels on a screen. Last year, I browsed around on Facebook and a lot of the prospective freshmen seemed to talking to each other as if they were old friends. When school started and they actually met, some still remained friends with each other, but there were also quite a few who became distanced from each other.
Roger Dooley,
I’m new to CC- when you mention a school forum is a better place to post what school we are visiting & when, where IS this school forum? Am I blind? I don’t find this website easy to navigate yet…
The school forum can be accessed under “Colleges.” (You can go to the bottom group which lists the schools alphabetically).
So if someone were headed up to Ithaca College, for example, they’d start a thread on the Ithaca College forum for others accepted at that school who might want to get together.
Just posting cause I like posting in these selected topics… but I’m thinking of possibly doing a meet up before school starts at U Mich, probably like dinner or something. Probably mainly U Mich transfers.
I’ll post there sometime later when more people start to get accepted.
I have always enjoyed meeting in real life people I first “met” online. I think this is a good idea; as Roger says, meetings for admitted students are safe places with prescreened guest lists.
Hmmm…I’ve already set up some CC/Facebook gatherings…perhaps a common identifying mark? Not sure…would you be able to contact the admit weekend people directly? Or just have one person organize it per school? A great idea, but how can we work it out?
