<p>Oh, I also meant to say, have you guys ever heard of the Carnegie Mellon “Sleeping Bag Weekend”? I might be going to that next year, and I was wondering if anyone else was.</p>
<p>I’ve only visited a couple of colleges, and I decided I didn’t want to apply. </p>
<p>In June I visited Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. I actually loved it – their theater program focuses on a lot of things I’m into and is really integrated with the community (even the non-college non-theater community). They have a nice small campus in Capitol Hill (Seattle’s gayest neighborhood). But I found out their financial aid is terrible, so I gave them up. </p>
<p>Also in June, I visited the Claremont colleges. The campus(es) felt really spread out and confusing to me, and the Pomona/Pitzer theater department was cool, but really tiny. I just felt like theater wasn’t a big enough deal on campus. Since I visited in the summer there weren’t many people there and I couldn’t find anyone to talk to about the school, but it just didn’t seem worth it (Pitzer and Pomona would be big reaches for me).</p>
<p>In a week I’m going to NYC. Sandy permitting, I’ll visit Eugene Lang, Barnard, NYU, Fordham, and a couple CUNYs – all schools I’ve already decided to apply to.</p>
<p>Visited:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (officially off my list)
North Dakota State University</p>
<p>Going to visit University of Minnesota (Duluth and Twin Cities), and Minnesota State</p>
<p>Visited:
Duke
UNC-Chapel Hill
NC State</p>
<p>I plan on visiting Yale, Brown, and Harvard</p>
<p>By visit, do you mean like drive there, or actually live in the dorms with other students and experience student life there first hand? Because I’ve visited quite a few campuses (Stanford, UCBerkeley, Yale, MIT, Harvard, UCLA, UCSD, etc…), but I think that the latter would be quite different…</p>
<p>I think anybody on the edge of visiting a college should definitely check this out beforehand.</p>
<p><a href=“https://files.nyu.edu/jh2844/public/index.html[/url]”>https://files.nyu.edu/jh2844/public/index.html</a></p>
<p>Guys check this out too </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1354422-ultimate-college-campus-visit-checklist.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1354422-ultimate-college-campus-visit-checklist.html</a></p>
<p>I plan on applying to UT-Austin, UW-Madison, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and Louisville, ive only been able to visit Texas and Louisville though -___-</p>
<p>Hey all! I am new here, didn’t read all the replies… but I have a list of around 16 colleges (I plan to narrow it down, haha), and actually plan on visiting them AFTER I get in. Is anybody else planning to do so?</p>
<p>Note: I live far away from almost all of the colleges I am planning to apply to, as in, I live in the Midwest and plan to apply to schools on the coasts, so it would be very expensive to actually travel to the colleges. Plus, most of my list is made up of reach schools which I have little chance of getting into anyways… The only visit I have done is Northwestern University, which was still quite a drive.</p>
<p>Visited:
UCLA
USC
Stanford
Caltech
Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>Plan to apply:
UCSD
USC
UC Berkeley
UCI
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
UCLA
Columbia</p>
<p>visited:
pitt
suny albany
syracuse</p>
<p>apply:
university of washington
ucla
u arizona
u florida
u denver
rutgers
boston university</p>
<p>Visited:<br>
-Vanderbilt: Crossed off the list-- didn’t like Nashville and the campus was like a forest
-WashU: Loves-- beautiful campus and great school, and I liked its location in St. Louis</p>
<p>Want to Visit:
-Emory
-Duke
-UNC
-Wake Forest
-UVA
-William and Mary
-Northwestern</p>
<p>Visited:
Rhodes (plan to apply)
University of Tennessee (plan to apply as a safety)
University of North Carolina (plan to apply)
Duke (won’t apply)</p>
<p>Want to visit:
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
University of Georgia
Samford
William and Mary</p>
<p>Visited: VCU, Rutgers
Plan to apply: VCU, Rutgers, U Pitt, JHU, BU, Temple</p>
<p>Also… I was originally planning to visit before applying, but then I decided to just visit after seeing where I get accepted. So, I’m going to visit after acceptances come.</p>
<p>I want to visit Haravrd, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Stanford University. But how can I do it, I heard about group tourss :/? Please enlighten me on how I can visit colleges as I never visited one:(</p>
<p>@WeIsCool I am doing something in the mix, I am visiting all the schools I am considering that are within a 5-6 hour radius of where I live. Almost all reaches are not in that radius, if I get into one I will visit after I am accepted.</p>
<p>@Imabelieva You visit the city where the school is located and go on the colleges website ahead of time and sign up for a tour/information session (they are free, though transportation to visit various cities can be rather costly), most people visit with their families. As for group tours, some high schools offer tours to various colleges which is generally how group tours work.</p>
<p>Visited Tufts, MIT(reach), Harvard(way way far reach), Northeastern(match), Pennstate(fairly safe), Upenn(reach). Want to visit Brown(reach), Carnegie Melon(?). Will apply most likely to all but Tufts also I need more safety schools, Pennstate is one fairly safe safety, but I feel I should have more. off the top of your head any suggestions for someone with a mid 2100 sat, low 96 GPA, with many AP classes?( I know stats are hard to judge by, but do you know of any schools where these would be above average?)</p>
<p>Ok I actually need advice on this:</p>
<p>So I visited MIT and loved it! The campus, the collaborative students, the intriguing majors (Biology department and Bioengineering are so cool!). I want to eventually get an MD/Phd so yeah I would be a pre-med soo…</p>
<p>My parents like Harvard a lot better. Like obviously I liked it I mean, its Harvard and I will apply. But I thought the tour was really odd in the sense that I feel like I didn’t see any of the campus, and she didn’t really show us any buildings. Something just didn’t click, it just felt off. I’m worried because I feel like I am supposed to LOVE Harvard, and I know I shouldn’t really worry about it but what if I get in and I don’t want to go. I guess I should wait until I’ve applied to freak out haha</p>
<p>@cutiedida: If you didn’t feel anything then I suggest you don’t apply. I wouldn’t want to waste 4 years at a school that I didn’t really love because then you will always be wondering what if. Better to just go with your gut feeling. It’s obvious that you love MIT way more than you like Harvard</p>
<p>UMD is absolutely beautiful, so you can’t not send an app in there. Delaware, PSU and JMU are all fantastic schools too, so I’m pulling for those :)</p>