What is a college campus visit like?

Pre-College Topics High School Cafe
1

Going to my first campus visit this week(I know really late).
I am kind of nervous, it says it is a 90 minute tour???
What do you exactly do? 90 minutes is quite long especially since I will be visiting a pretty small college.
Can my parents come?
Are tours generally individual or is it a group tour?

2

You walk around the campus with a tour guide (usually a current student), who explains everything and answers questions. Someone from the admissions department will probably give a speech before you go on the tour.

Yes.

Small groups like [url=https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/walking_tour_640px.jpg]this[/url].

3

Can my cousin and her parents come along? She really wants to and she is a high school freshmen.

4

Parent(s) usually tour with their kid. Often there is an admissions presentation where they talk about admissions and the school and answer questions. These sessions usually start to sound the same after you’ve heard a few. Then they break up the audience into smaller groups for tours led by students. Usually the tour groups had about 20-30 people but it varied a lot depending on weather and season. Most tours are about 1 hour long.

Most schools we visited have an online signup for tours–they also like to get your email during this process. Check for that and if it doesn’t answer your question, try calling admissions to ask whether it’s possible for them to come along with you. Actually, your cousin should arrange for her tour with her family. Probably it will be fine. I think only during certain times they may have to limit the groups due to sizes of rooms or availability of guides.

We visited mid and large size schools. All of this may be scaled down at a small school.

5

Yeah on the website it asks how many guests will come with you. It says a max of 5 guests can come, so I am guessing it will be alright?

6

Your parents are guests. Seriously, she can just sign up to tour at the same time. Just be sure she really wants to go on a long tour and maybe sit through an info session. A lot of 9th graders would be bored. It isn’t a social event.

7

Print out a Bingo card!

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1837440-college-tour-bingo.html

We made this thread as a sort of joke but it’s true that on tours you will probably hear many of these things. Yes bring your family if they want to go.

8

She should sign up for her own family. Some colleges track student interest and if she’s going to tour she might as well get credit for it. She may also get on their mailing list or something which she might like if she is interested in this school.