How do you afford all those college visits?

bethievt
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:34:46 +0000

OP

I haven’t read every single post, so pardon me. We visited 20 because we could and had a lot of fun with it, but I think others are correct in saying it’s very helpful, but a luxury, not a necessity. Visit as many as you realistically can, even if only after acceptances. We focused on finding a couple of safety schools he’d be happy with. The A list schools were all so good it didn’t matter as much.

As far as your son studying the sciences, some small LACs are INCREDIBLE places to study sciences. Three that we visited are Carleton, Grinnell and Oberlin. I think Pomona is probably top-notch too. Grinnell has a new science building and they are adding faculty to make even intro lab courses small. I think I read that students graduating from Juniata, a small LAC, have a near 100% acceptance rate for med school. Reed is also great in almost all areas–and has its own student-run nuclear reactor.