<p>So… is it weird to start visiting colleges the summer before junior year? I’ve always been nervous to visit colleges because I feel like people there would think I’m weird for visiting so young…</p>
<p>^ Don’t worry. I went on an entire ‘college search’ this year with my friend and her dad. At the ‘top’ schools, our age was normal and unsurprising. (Princeton, Georgetown, Columbia, Barnard)</p>
<p>When at American, our tour guide kind of joked that we were starting young.</p>
<p>And I did this back in March. So… even earlier than the summer before my junior year.</p>
<p>It’s fun visiting colleges though.</p>
<p>Oh… And I did my first ‘college visit’ without knowing it when I was a freshman. I signed up to do this science day at Newberry College, and the first half of the day was an info. session and tour. They count that as a CV. =/</p>
<p>So go ahead and have fun. I wouldn’t recommend going during the summer though… There aren’t any students there and you can’t get a feel for the school. Same with going on a Saturday, Sunday, or even a Friday. and if the school doesn’t schedule classes on a certain day… don’t go then either. (Like American doesn’t schedule classes on Wednesday. =/)</p>
<p>No, I’m talking about SAT II’s from a college admissions standpoint.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty good public school (How do you know if your public school is like competitive or whatever? haha) and it seems like a lot of people take them, and all of you guys talk about taking them too. (My older brother didn’t though)</p>
<p>I actually LOVED going on college tours with my brother, I thought they were so fun! We toured, BU, Ithaca, and Syracuse during the spring break of his junior year. (I feel like going before your a junior is kind of getting ahead of yourself, a lot can change in a year or two!)</p>
<p>And I’m all for having the largest thread! 
YAY 2011!</p>
<p>What kind of colleges to people from your school go to?
We have like 11 or so that are going to PENN next year, and some others are going to ivy’s too. (Val and Sal are going to Harvard and Cornell)</p>
<p>Their are also a lot of penn staters (20 something this year?)</p>
<p>Hey guys, I’m just stopping by to welcome you to the worst year of high school. Have fun in the next year of HELL!</p>
<p>…Andd 2010>2011.</p>
<p>^Nice way to trump. XD</p>
<p>You’re just jealous! (Obviously you’rre not, but you know… we can dream. XD)</p>
<p>Kids at my school go anywhere from Limestone College (nothing you’ve probably heard of) to Duke and WashU. But the point is… everyone goes <em>somewhere</em>.</p>
<p>@ rachael525 - total typo! haha how embarrassing. forgive me, Stanford!</p>
<p>Visiting before junior year is totally fine. And this will most definitely be the largest thread!!</p>
<p>My public HS is crappy. But IMO, I think that’s good for top students when it comes to admissions. We send more than 50% of our school to military/local community college and this year we’re sending 2 to Ivies. One on a sports scholarship though. Decent amount of top 20 universities though, around 15 people out of a class of 650?</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>My high school pretty much sucks as well, especially the class of '09 (worse than usual). Everyone pretty much goes to community college or state. One person got into MIT this year, that was it, no Ivies.
The smartest people at our school go to UCs most of the time.
Around 1-2 people a year (out of classes of around 600+) go to a top ten school, and that’s pretty much it.</p>
<p>Oh Wow! Then I guess my school is competitive, I never knew!</p>
<p>The top people in our school either go to UNC-Chapel Hill or Duke but the last person to go to an Ivy was this girl that went to Princeton about six years ago.</p>
<p>Woo. Class of '11. :D</p>
<p>My schedule next year is:
Academic Decathlon/AP Psych (semester classes)
Band
AP Eng Lit
AP US History
Physics
Spanish 3
AP Calculus AB.</p>
<p>None of it sounds bad to me actually, except for Spanish… this is my fourth year and I’m SICK of it. (They made me take Spanish 1 twice, even though I had a 98 in the class as my end of the year average, because they “lost my transcript” or something like that.) I’m not the best at math - in fact, I generally really hate it - but I’ve heard that the teacher is amazing. And as for AP US History, the subject is interesting, but I’ve heard the teacher is boring. Sooo, we’ll see.</p>
<p>As for colleges, I’ve got a lot of long shots - Brown, Yale, and Rice being my top three. If I don’t get in to any of those, which is extremely likely, sadly, I’ll go to whichever school within my state has the best program in my major, I guess. There are a few good ones, so no worries, hopefully.</p>
<p>But I’d really like to go to one of those three… (:</p>
<p>Tea our high school is pretty competitve as well…we have about 8 going to Penn and 10 going to Princeton. And the basically a lot of other’s going to HYPSMC and similar. Although our our val is actually going to Johns Hopkins and sal to Brown.</p>
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Me too. I can’t wait to visit though, I already have a pretty good idea of which schools I’m interested in.</p>
<p>It probably depends on what colleges you intend to visit. I assume that if you were to visit higher achieving colleges, the kids would totally understand since, in general, the motivated students are the ones who get into the game early. However, if you were to visit some community college or lower achieving college, maybe you would get a few strange looks.</p>
<p>The thing is that many colleges are huge and span parts of cities, and these colleges often have facilities that are open to the public from time to time. So it wouldn’t look strange at all if you were to visit. For all the students knew, you could be visiting the local pool with your family.</p>
<p>I visited lots of colleges when I was in 7th grade because my sister was touring.
I kind of remember them, but not well enough, so basically my parents will have to take me again to see those same colleges.
I’ll probably visit 1-2 colleges over the summer, but the colleges that I really want to tour are across the country. </p>
<p>It sucks because my parents don’t want me to go to college far away.</p>
<p>The facebook page is dead D:</p>
<p>I just found the facebook page. =(</p>
<p>Oh no! thread dying!</p>
<p>I like cheese. </p>
<p>Thought you all should know.</p>
<p>Let’s .</p>