<p>Just wondering for those of you who have gone or are planning on your going what your thoughts are re: attending an Accepted Students Day. Options are to spend the night or not and the parents have been invited for the day activities. Thoughts? thanks</p>
<p>I might go just to meet students who I might be going to school with next year.</p>
<p>However, the events are all "hyped-up" that you don't get a true feeling of the campus</p>
<p>Accepted students day = Orientation/Registration? If so, this was a lot of fun. Everybody is in a social and collegial mood. You hear about all the great things that a school has to offer, sign up for clubs and generally just meet new people. The parents when I went were separated off and you had a specific amount of time to spend with your parents around town. They set you up in a crappy dorm room with a roommate, who instantly becomes a new friend.</p>
<p>My wife didn't do this before college and she regretted it. She went through college without ever hearing about the lecture hall that allows you to show movies at night, cool ice cream stores in town and other cool things like that. </p>
<p>You should go and have fun.</p>
<p>I agree with belevitt. In addition to all those points, after all the stress of applications and waiting to find out if you have been accepted, it is fun to go and have THEM hoping you choose them!</p>
<p>hi-thanks--this is not the orientation but just for students (it is in 2 weeks) who have been accepted but have not decided yet. pierre0913--that"s S's concern--that it will be hyped up and he is not that interested in having that experience
My thoughts are that he might meet some students that he would know in the fall. Still, I can see that if he is bored it might not be a good thing.</p>
<p>oregon, if your son dosen't want to go, then don't go (provided that he has already seen the campus already). If he hasn't seen the campus and dosen't care about the information sessions and other special events that come with admitted students day, then visit on a day that isn't an admitted students day.</p>
<p>I plan to go to some admitted students day but only to meet with students that I have met online that I have not seen in person.</p>
<p>My son attended one trying to decide if that was really the college he wanted to go to. He had narrowed down his choices to 2. He had visited school #1 several times but had only visited #2 once and that was in the summer. He and his dad went to an Accepted Student Day. The visit won him over, he enrolled and lived happily ever after. However, if your son knows for sure that is where he is going and is not interested in attending, I don't think he will be missing anything.</p>
<p>thanks-- shennie, it is like your S. He has visited campus once in the summer (and walked around one other time for an hour) and attended an event held by the school in our city once and it is his first choice. He has spent more time on his #2 choice campus. pierre0913 I agree -almost-I guess i think he does not really know that it will be fun to meet possible students that he will run into next year. He is totally involved in his upcoming battle of the bands and it is difficult to get his attention. He has agreed to go so I am thinking we will go ahead but make it a short day and not stay for everything unless he wants to...
just so don't want it to backfire.</p>
<p>If it is just a matter of bad timing, it is possible that he could visit the school at another time. Sometimes you get a better picture without the dog and pony show. He could contact the admissions office and let them know that he is not available to visit during the regularly scheduled AS Day and would like to set something else up if possible.</p>
<p>I now have a better understanding of Accepted Students Day ( not orientation).</p>