I really liked to visit all schools i’ve applied,
but frankly i didnt have enough money, neither would my parents pay me trips.
furthermore, i’ve never left my state.
now decision dates(i applied out of state schools and i wanna go out) are approaching as well as a spring break
and i wonder if i should visit some schools during my spring break (before i got to know which schools have accpeted me)
of course i’d rather visit schools after i know which schools I can choose from, yet then (during April) i will have to miss school-days (and thinking about AP exams and all that …) and … you know to meet May1st deadline, i might dont have enough time to think deeply or wahtever
<p>I would visit the schools after you know where you've been accepted but before the ap exams. use the "down time" in traveling from school to school to study for ap's.</p>
<p>You can also visit on the weekends; leave after school on Friday, back Sunday night. If money is an issue, it would be best to wait until you know which schools you are deciding between. many students will be visiting their top schools during April. My daughter always takes her work with her for the plane and airport. This gives her several hours to study; there isn't much else to do while you sit in the airport anyway!</p>
<p>At this point you might as well wait until the decision are in. After apps are in and before decisions are sent is a really awkward time to visit and reallysort of pointless. See waht your choices are this spring and then edit your list sot hat you will visit the two or thre you are most interested in. Missing a couple of days of school at this point is generally pretty acceptable. Many accepted students events take place on weekends in any case.</p>
<p>How many schools are we talking about here? And how far apart are they? If you applied to 10 schools, you probably have some personal ranking of where you would like to go. Are there at least a few schools within driving distance that you can do over Spring Break in March? </p>
<p>If I was admitted to 10 schools in April, I would not be able to handle the visits. But on the other hand, if I was admitted to all 10 that I had applied to, I would probably be able to eliminate 3 off the bottom of my list without visiting. </p>
<p>If you applied to Florida, South Carolina, Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio.....you get my drift...how would you possibly visit them all. Look at a U.S. map, and see if you can at least group the schools into 2 separate trips. Let us know a little more if you can?</p>
<p>This is a good reason to visit schools before you apply to them, go where you can during spring break....even if you don't get into those schools you will have something to compare with.</p>
<p>that is a very good reason, if you have the money. duh, i'm exactly in your position. my parents didn't even want to pay to have my transcripts and SAT scores sent, let alone take me to visit colleges. i AM visiting colleges during spring break, though, tagging along with a junior (her family's driving up along the east coast). granted, we're probably going to visit schools i didn't even apply to, but at least i'll visit some of the schools i did apply to, and as i visit i'll develop a list of characteristics i would like a school to have, then i can use that list for later visits (after acceptances).</p>
<p>that's cool. excluding safeties, i have 7 schools i applied.
they are all in east cost but different states; MA, NJ, NY, NC, MD
and many schools are super reaches or reaches therefore i dont think i will get accepted into "too" many school;;</p>
<p>If i visit schools after acceptance, wouldnt i be better off staying a night or so??
Would short stops at each school during the spring break worthy money and time??
(FYI, i am from Florida, and my school doesnt have a April break)</p>
<p>If I had the money I would do both, unfortenately, I have neither the time nor the money to do both, so I will only do after. Before is good, but if I don't get in, it's pretty much a waste of my money</p>
<p>I visited my ED school (and two other schools really close to it) before I applied...But I got deferred, so now I am waiting to see which schools I am accepted to before visiting...</p>
<p>I visited some different types of schools(ie... small in city, small in rural, big sports college, big liberal arts college, etc) before I applied but didn't have the time or money to visit all of the schools I applied to. Out of my ten schools I had visited five before I applied(I visited others but decided not to apply). I'm waiting until April to visit the others pending my admission. My spring break is in mid March so I'll be taking days off of school to go but I think that makes more sense for me. My colleges range from Boston to Miami,all in between, and out west... no easy way to visit all at once. I decided that if I got in and if I got a good financial aid package then I'd spend the money to visit if I was really interested. </p>
<p>Yes, duh, (I feel so bad saying yes, duh,) an overnight stay always gives you better insight into student life; but I am sure plenty of kids go off to school without having the opportunity to do an overnight at the school.</p>
<p>Would your parents do a road trip with you in March? Don't know where in Florida you are, but it is possible to drive to NC in 10 hours, overnight at your school, + spend 1 day, then drive to MD, that evening, (about 4 hours) and overnight + 1 day there, and so on.</p>
<p>It can be done in a fairly tight budget. You will however need to make prior arrangements with the schools for you to overnight in a dorm.</p>
<p>On the other hand, you can wait until April.....you did sound unsure about acceptances....and then narrow it down to 2 or 3, and do the trip then. Some people visit their safeties/matches, and don't visit their reaches until they actually get accepted.</p>
<p>i was in the same situation earlier this year. i live in hawaii, so i wanted to go visit some of the east coast schools i had applied to during the winter months (january, early february), but the entire trip fell through...now, i think that's better. i'm leaving options open for visiting schools in april. i figure that it's better to wait and see where i get in, and then visit those schools...i'll be able to concentrate on them, and compare ones that i could actually attend. i mean, what if you go now and fall in love with a school you've applied to, make it your first choice, say you'll crawl through broken glass to get there, etc etc, and then don't get in? it's emotionally safer to wait. ;)</p>