Help. Does this mean I visited the school?

_rentof2
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:16:00 +0000

I think it counts as a visit. The reason colleges are interested in whether you visited or not is that it lets them know you’re applying knowing something about the school, and having actually been there, and not just that you’ve read it on a list of schools somewhere, or a guidebook, or that kind of thing. It lets them know your application is an informed one, so it’s less likely you’re just applying based on nothing, and hence less likely to actually attend if you’re accepted.

As to the little cards you sometimes fill out, my son and I visited several places where we didn’t fill out the card. We did the tours, the info sessions. I certainly would state that we had visited, card or no card.

If my daughter (who, like you, went on some visits to colleges with her older brother) was applying under those circumstances I would definitely advise her to say, yes, she visited. Because she did!