College Fair questions

bclintonk
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:25:06 +0000

D1 went to our regional NACAC National College Fair a couple of times. It was quite helpful, but mostly because she was interested in LACs in the Northeast that weren’t getting a lot of attention from the Upper Midwest kids attending the fair. All our local schools and big-name, nationally well-known schools were mobbed; the reps for most of the Northeastern LACs were pretty lonely, and they were very excited to talk to a real live prospect. So she ended up having a number of extended, in-depth conversations with admissions officers, in most cases the admissions officer whose territory included our state. She picked up a lot of information about those schools, and I think she generally left a good impression with the admissions officers, notes on which may have made it into her admissions file at several of the schools. At the end of the day, though, the only school she applied to was her first-choice LAC, where she applied and was admitted ED.