Meeting with prof while on campus tour

interesteddad
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:10:31 +0000

My daughter arranged to meet two professors during her campus visit. One met her in his office, spent a few minutes with her and then had arrranged for a senior, majoring in the department, to show her around the labs and answer questions. Another e-mailed back and forth, arranging to sit in on a class and even gave her the reading assignment (an obscure Dostoevsky novel) so she could follow the discussion. The prof then spent a few mintues talking to her after class.

The key is to be open ended in the request. Sit in on a class? Chat for a few minutes after class? Answer questions by e-mail? Look at it this way. It’s a good chance to see how student-centered a school really is. If you get the brush off? Well…