Dress Code for College Visits?

SmithieandProud
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:52:02 +0000

Be comfortable and clean. I don’t believe in dressing up or dressing out of the ordinary for college visits. Part of the goal is to see how you would fit in on that campus, so you should dress as you normally do and see if you feel comfortable. If everyone seems a lot more dressed up or a lot more dressed down than you, that might be something to pay attention to.

If you’re doing an interview, still just wear the normal clothes, but maybe the best version of those clothes. If your son is a jeans and t-shirt guy, let him where jeans and a t-shirt, but maybe his nicest t-shirt, and one without any cartoon characters on it. The idea is to present yourself to the interviewer, not some invented persona.