College Tour Help

happy1
Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:24:14 +0000

First of all, if you ask a lot of questions on the tour it won’t be a passive experience. At some schools we split up and took tours with different guides and compared notes (sometimes similar, sometimes not).

Normally I’d say to eat in the student cafeteria. When we did this my D would try to seek out a group of friendly looking students and eat with them which generally worked out very well – she got a lot of insight into the schools. However, this may not be possible in the summer when there may be more campers from summer programs than students on campus. My husband always liked to go into the library and the gym of each college we visited. You may want to walk around the area near the campus to get a feel for the location.

And I agree about not limiting yourself to the Ivy schools. They are hyper-competitive.