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Just for anecdotal confirmation of this–Brandeis was the first college our son ever visited, way back in the summer before his junior year. At that point, his GPA made him a flatly unrealistic Brandeis candidate. He liked the place so much that I think the visit may have planted the seed of his academic turnaround over the following year and a half, during which his GPA has gone up by over three-tenths of a point, turning Brandeis from “out of reach” to “realistic reach.”</p>