Observing a class at a prospective college (question)

M_s_Mom
Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:46:36 +0000

Some schools (the bigger ones) may handle this more informally. Our S contacted a student he knew who was already enrolled at our huge state U and asked if he could go to classes with him. On the day he chose to visit, a number of classes were so big that no one was going to notice one student more or less. In the smaller classes, he went up with his host, introduced himself and asked permission to sit in. He was never refused although it turned out that in one class they were having a pop quiz, so it wasn’t worth his time to sit in.

By contrast, at the LACs that he visited, he got lists of classes that he was allowed to attend, from the admissions office on the day he visited.