College Selection / Touring Timeline?

Peruna1998
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:35:51 +0000

I come at this from a different perspective. My oldest is in eighth grade. My youngest is in sixth. They’ve already been on college tours. Can the collective sighs, please. We do it for two reasons. If we are in a part of the country we may not get back to when they are looking at colleges, at least we’ve looked at it. Yes, it will have changed (in some respects a lot), but they will have set foot on campus. More importantly, it gets them to think about college. When they toured their first college, all they knew about college was what their mom and I talked about and “Monsters University”. They enjoyed it and took away different things, some things I didn’t even notice. It showed me that they look at things entirely differently, learn differently, and do well in different environments (well, duh). But, it was an eye-opening experience.

It also shows the kids that learning is cool. Having your middle school kids gawk at a true lab is fun. Having them (on their own initiative) ask students about their research and seeing the cogwheels spin is fun. Having them tell you afterwards that they could see themselves there is awesome.

Anyway, just a different point of view.