<p>What percentage of applicants to a college actually visit it? </p>
<p>I’ve heard of students that apply to UCSB without ever having visited it, even though they live about a half-mile away, and I’ve heard of a lot of kids go on cross-country road trips with the expressed purpose of visiting as many colleges as they can.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the exact number is, but I think that many students do visit colleges that they are interested in applying to. Visiting is important in the college admissions process because the adcoms can see if you have visited, and from this they can tell your interest level in their school. Adcoms know that just by the numbers, applicants who are admitted to their school and have visited are more likely to attend than those who have not. For this reason, and because it is important to get a feel for the campus, and the students, visiting is highly recommended, but NOT required.</p>
<p>Well, the visit is mainly for your own benefit, not to help your admissions app. Visiting a school gives you a general feel of the atmosphere. For example, I always wanted to apply to UCB, but once I visited the campus, I didn’t want to go there anymore. I can’t really say why, it was just a feeling.</p>
<p>I didn’t visit a single school that I applied to. My philosophy was that I would visit the ones I actually got into during spring (and maybe take a few days off from school to do so), and save money by not visiting a whole bunch of schools. It is quite common at my school to have seniors skipping schools to visit college they got into.</p>
<p>^Ha ha. Yeah I didn’t like Berkeley after I visited. I applied to 5 schools, 4 of which I had never visited before, but with the intention to visit them all. I was only able to visit 3 more of them, so I didn’t consider the last one after that. I wasn’t going to go to a school that I never visited.</p>