mention visit or not?

Crusoemom
Fri, 27 May 2016 01:28:10 +0000

Three years ago, my daughter applied to and got into Tulane. We all visited, and Tulane was her first choice until she got into a school in Chicago and decided she preferred that city to NO (crazy, I know). Now my son is applying to Tulane. We can’t afford to visit, with another kid in college. However, he did tour the campus when we all visited three years ago (he was a rising 9th grader that summer). Should he mention the visit from three years ago, as a way to demonstrate interest? The one drawback that I see would be that they would then know that his sister was accepted but didn’t attend, and that might reflect poorly on him, even though they are VERY different kids and he would be much more likely to attend than she would.

His stats are good - 35ACT, 3.98GPA, 3-sport varsity athlete (lightly recruited for D3 x-country), Eagle Scout, yada yada. He IS very interested, and wants to demonstrate interest, but is concerned that his sister’s decision might reflect negatively on him.

Sooo, should he mention the visit or not?