<p>Logistically speaking, it definitely makes sense for the Admissions Office schedule to dovetail with the academic calendar.</p>
<p>If I can reach…maybe the benefit is to get a sense of the “buzz” that’s on campus during the day? (No funny stuff with that…you all know what I mean!)</p>
<p>I think it’s mainly that the Admissions Office people are fully engaged in the life of the campus. Some are coaches or have other EC responsibilities after academic hours. And, if they’re there for the academic calendar, then that means they’d have to be called in to work extra days if the schedule breeched too deep into the holiday and vacation days on the school calendar.</p>
<p>One school that we visited, St. George’s, had students sit in on classes during a Saturday group visit event (one of several “St. George’s Days” they hold). Another school we visited, Asheville School, had a similar event during a weekday and they held a “demo” humanities class (combined history and English) for the participants. (I thought that one was pretty funny because applicants and parents were all in the room and every time the teacher asked a question, there were a couple of parents who kept raising their hands a little too eager to impress the teacher. “Oooh me! Call on me! Ooooh oooh, PUH-LEEZ call on meeee!”)</p>