<p>This seems to be the most valuable thing a kid can do when evaluating a school! Yesterday my son audited a class (Intermediate Biochemistry/Metabolism) and came out absolutely beaming. He said "It was so refreshing to be in a situation where people are interested in what's being taught, and where REAL EDUCATION is happening." There were only 11 kids in the class. </p>
<p>We were supposed to go over to Loyola for the tour there and my son refused to go. He said "This is it, Mom. I love it here."</p>
<p>Morgan England is the person you contact to arrange for a class audit and I'd highly recommend it.</p>
<p>Will put up our full visit report when we get home. More to see and do today on campus.</p>
<p>Glad he (and you) are having a great visit. That is quite a challenging class he sat in on! But I think it is fairly typical of what he will get at Tulane in that major and many other courses, especially after freshman year. I guess the SUPA thing is long forgotten, lol.</p>
<p>At the risk of being overly pedantic, I will point out that he “sat in” on a class, not audited in the sense that is usually used at a university. Auditing a class is a formal process that involves signing up to go for the whole term, but not for a grade. At least that is how I have always heard it. If I am being overly strict in my definition, then apologies in advance. Just thought that using the word “audit” to a university official when you only want to observe one class might cause confusion, but maybe not.</p>
<p>Anyway, my real point is that many students have also just e-mailed the professor a couple weeks ahead of time asking permission to sit in when they visit, without going through admissions. I have never heard of anyone saying no unless they knew already that they were going to be away that class or giving an exam.</p>
<p>Is Morgan your admissions advisor or have they generally assigned her to take care of all these requests, regardless of who the student’s particular advisor is?</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification, FC. I just think of ‘auditing’ in the literal sense. You’re listening, not participating. Either way, yes… Morgan England is the person to contact and then she reaches out to the professors who are willing to have a visitor on a particular day. Because this was the first week back, only two classes were available to Lucas.</p>
<p>I asked if he felt that the material was way over his head and he said “not at all”, so I think he’ll do ok in college. He told me all about what was covered and I nodded as though I had even one small clue as to what he was talking about. </p>
<p>We didn’t discuss the SUPA situation but thanks for reminding me, because I will ask about it today. ;)</p>
<p>School visit is over… (tomorrow we’ll do the city/cemetery tour). I posted it on the official visit page, but bottom line is that he loved every single thing about the school and he’s good to go. </p>
<p>The SUPA credits WILL put him in a higher level Latin class, so those were not a waste.</p>
<p>We saw a dorm room at Paterson which, no joke, was twice the size of the dorms at Miami! And this was a ‘small’ freshman room.</p>
<p>Such great news, mavitale! Congrats!! I am also looking forward to hearing if someone gets to sit in on one of Melissa Harris-Perry’s classes. That would be fun too!</p>
He told me all about what was covered and I nodded as though I had even one small clue as to what he was talking about. </p>