Help us plan PA college visits, please...

ctParent2006
Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:28:22 +0000

If you can I would leave he interviews for a second trip. Interviews are important at some schools and they will tell you that. Even at those schools the interview is often a student intern in the Admission office.

Naturally if you don’t think you can make it back and he/she is sure to apply it doesn’t hurt at all. To get the hang of these interviews, which are not usually particularly probing, you could schedule one at a school that is lower on the list so that in the highly unlikely case it doesn’t go well it won’t disrupt matters too much.

I think you may already know this but the schools you are visiting, I think, all place a high value on applicants who express interest in going to their schools. Be sure to sign any forms or guest book when you go. That sort of thing doesn’t matter at larger schools but it does count quite a bit at smaller ones.