<p>I believe him; I just think it's completely unnecessary unless the trip is mandatory.</p>
<p>With regard to the WUStL weekend, it's billed as a "Multicultural Celebration Weekend." You can draw your own conclusions from there;I don't feel like being so explicit.</p>
<p>The reason it's billed as a "Multicultural Celebration Weekend" and not as an "Admitted Students Weekend" is in part to help erase the stigma that the Midwest (St. Louis) has a homogenous population; if you read the site you'd see that it is pretty much exactly the same as Penn Previews.</p>
<p>In regards to why a college would pay for a weekend like that, it's simple- to attract more students.</p>
<p>ya wat he said...many colleges such as williams and amherst also has free visitation for students...its not compeletly unnecessary as many students who do not have the resources to visit can now have the opp</p>