Visiting campuses as an international?

Grimdorr
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:32:54 +0000

I’m from a Junior in Materials Engineering from Singapore and I’m almost done with my semester of study abroad program here in US. I’m planning to apply to grad schools next semester, so is there a point in visiting potential schools I’m interested in rather than just to visit their pretty campuses?

Keeping in mind that in fact I haven’t really done much research into the schools to the extent that I have specific professors I’d like to talk to. Plus I’m pretty unsure at this point because my undergraduate research has been on one specfic area that’s scattered among different engineering colleges at different universities, like in ChemE in one, ME in another, MatE for the remaining, you get the idea, which makes me unsure of pursuing my current research or just sticking to MatE programs.

I have several weeks to go around to visit schools before I return and this will be my only chance to visit before applying, I guess it wouldn’t be that good to approach this halfheartedly either, anyone have any advice?