I wanted to see what kind of fly-in programs were available at colleges in which they cover the cost of transportation. I know Amherst has one, but that’s about it. I’m hispanic and we have a household income of about $50k yearly. I’m currently a junior and I’m looking at top 40 universities and liberal arts colleges to apply to in the fall. If you’re familiar with any programs you’d think someone like me would be eligible for, please leave them below!!
Are you familiar with Questbridge? http://www.questbridge.org/
I was offered to be flown in for the Notre Dame Spring Visit Weekend but I think you have to be picked for that and I’m not sure if your income matters as they never received any financial information from me. They paid for transportation, meals, the whole thing but it was for admitted students so you have to be accepted first.
Then at Duke, I received a likely letter that’s for Hispanic students in the form of an invitation to their Hispanic Recruitment Weekend. If you qualified for big financial aid, which you probably will, they had funds available to cover your transportation costs. But then again you’d have to be admitted/likelied which is almost the same.
And finally at my beloved Princeton, if you have financial aid need and are admitted, they will cover the costs of transportation and meals and stuff for you to visit their Princeton Preview days. My family’s income is around $40,000 and they sent me an email as long as a letter after I had been accepted about covering all my expenses to go visit.
So these basically in my case, you had to be accepted or given a likely letter in order to be offered to be flown in, I’m not sure if that’s what you were asking for but hope it helped 
@lr4550
Yes!! I applied to the questbridge prep scholar program about a week ago.
I was admitted to Duke and Carnegie Mellon, and both have offered me transportation fees (along with the associated costs for the weekend) to come visit them during their own versions of Diversity Weekend. Although colleges do not offer them to every accepted students, if you are a minority, your chances are good given you are a competitive applicant – I mean, you do need to get admitted first 
Hmm ok, but are you guys familiar with any like Amherst’s DIVOH? Just fly-ins to visit the college before applying.
I did DIVOH for Amherst, WoW for Williams, Bowdoin experience for Bowdoin, and I know Dartmouth has one. Top Universities do not have fly-ins (like Harvard etc) that they will cover with an actual program.
For the other posters, I’m pretty sure he means fly-ins programs and not admitted days for admitted students. If you are an URM, then you will offered to fly-in, after you been accepted, to apart of the multicultural days depending on the school.
Bates has an upcoming fly-in for Juniors in May but the deadline to register/apply just passed. You could always call and inquire but they will also have upcoming events for Seniors in the fall per their website.
I learned about fly in programs too late but it seems like a majority of The LACs I was applying to had them. I know that’s not specific but if you are interested in other LACs I would just search the school name and fly in after it.
http://blog.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/blog/2014-college-fly-in-programs/
Heres a nice list from last year
Thanks so much @Jmbakh super helpful!! I did some of my own research and a couple extra fly in programs not on that list are: Prologue to bates, Davidson MVP, Vassar view, & Celebration of diversity weekend at CMU. Cornell and columbia also have diversity open houses for engineers. It seems like almost every notable LAC has a fly in program.
Here’s a thread listing some fly-ins. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/african-american-students/1539855-diversity-fall-fly-in-programs-p7.html The dates have not been updated yet but you can start look into programs at colleges you’re interested in. Most fly-in applications won’t open up before August but you can get started on essays based on past applications– and you’ll be working on your Common App or QB essays over the summer anyway ;). The dates and links in that thread should be updated over the summer.
Some more colleges offering multicultural fly-ins that aren’t listed at the top of that thread (and you can scan the thread for mentions of others):
Penn
CIT
Columbia(engineering)
Wake Forest
Rice
MIT
WashU
Emory
Pomona
Carleton
Washington and Lee
Whitman
Chicago
Macalester
Cornell(engineering)
Harvey Mudd
RPI
Johns Hopkins
Wellesley
Dartmouth
Haverford
@honeybee63 thanks a bunch!! The only one for Emory that I found was for admitted students in April. Is there another? Also had trouble finding the WashU and CIT ones!! Could you link me to somewhere I could learn more about them please??
Add Lehigh to the list.
I was admitted to Cornell (not engineering) and they’re offering to fly me in for Cornell Days next week!
Nice, congrats!! Just to make sure this thread isn’t derailed I’d like to reiterate that this thread is for fly-in programs (usually in the fall, some are in the summer) for prospective applicants, not for admitted students.
@giraffeinatree This is pinned at the top of the AA thread. You may find posts #94 to 98 most helpful.
@giraffeinatree, the WUSTL fly-in is by invitation, so if you’re interested get on their mailing list (and fill out everything they make available to pre-frosh), talk to your college counselor, and see if you can contact people here who have attended the program. I know that @planner03’s S did the WUSTL fly-in last fall and really loved the school a lot.
I got invited for all-expense paid weekends at Notre Dame, Duke if needed to be as @Homeless2Harvard stated, and Harvard for Visitas (maybe CMU?). I got 400 dollars for blue devil days since I can’t go to LSRW, 150 at Northwestern. Do far, I haven’t heard of any help from Georgetown, NYU, or USC