<p>My daughter got an email about this time last year from the Oberlin admissions office asking her why she had not visited. We wondered at the time if this was a feeler to see how serious she was in the application. She replied that her father had attended and she knew other students, so she didn’t need to visit. She got in and is not a first-year. Other colleges that she applied to and did not visit wait-listed her, even though in some cases she should have been, number-wise, a clear admit.</p>