Visit helpful for admission?

boysx3
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:25:33 +0000

A visit is certainly helpful with admissions…it puts a face to the name on an application. My son found his admissions rep very useful and is glad he got to know him.

Also, going to school in DC is in some ways a bit different than in some other urban areas.

Because so many students are deeply involved in internships during the semester, the tempo of the campus is a bit different. Not too many students spend a lot of empty hours hanging in the floor lounge. Most of the students are very articulate and quite opinionated.

My son has thrived in this environment. One of his friends visited from Syracuse (in honors and direct admit to Newhouse) for several days, and she hated it…she felt there wasn’t any down time, and also that too many students were too intense. They are very focused on their classes, and very focused on real world issues.

This isn’t to say the students aren’t having fun…they do have a lot of fun. My son is involved in a fraternity and in intramural sports, and he and his friends love to have all kinds of cook-off competitions. But he has very little random “nothing” time, and while that works for him it wouldn’t work for everybody.