<p>hey, i would really appreciate it if anyone can tell me how important college visits (+interviews) are for the following schools: harvard, yale, upenn, brown, cornell, uchicago, northwestern, washu (stl), umich, carnegie mellon, notre dame, duke, jhu, and u virginia?</p>
<p>thanks for responding!</p>
<p>so you are a junior and plan to apply next year? What year are you applying?</p>
<p>Well for the ivies, the visit isn't really beneficial in giving you an admissions boost, however it is an opportunity for you to see the campus and all that. For places like Chicago and WashU the visit could potentialy give you a boost cause it shows interest and those type of schools like that. I'd recommend doing interviews wherever and whenever possible!</p>
<p>i reccommend them but i dont THINK it will give you much of an admissions boost.</p>
<p>if the school is slightly lower tier than the ivies, then it probably matters more because many people use them as safeties (even though they are a reach for most people!)</p>
<p>oh i see. thanks for the feedback</p>
<p>Define "slightly lower tier than ivies." Do you mean MIT? Because in my opinion MIT is only slightly worse than the Ivies. It may even surpass in academic excellence certain Ivy leagues such as Penn State.</p>
<p>Visits are probably more important at smaller schools (lacs)</p>
<p>Go Grits......more wrong information from you. Penn State is NOT in the Ivy League. Maybe you should read a little longer and then begin posting. So far your accuracy of information is very poor.</p>
<p>so for "lower than ivy" schools like uchicago, jhu, northwestern, and washu, visiting (and interview) does help?</p>
<p>grits, i don't really understand your post :)</p>
<p>slightly lower, slightly worse....the difference?</p>
<p>also, Penn State is NOT!!! an ivy....maybe you're confusing it with University of Pennsylvania, commonly referred to as Penn (i applied there)</p>
<p>I would say i was talking about schools like.....WashU, Vandy, Emory, etc.
MIT is kind of considered right up there with ivys. But anyway, I think all schools in the top 30-40 are excellent.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that this forum was a loving community of metaphorical flowers and trees swaying in the wind as the sweet sounds of a guitar serenade float into our collective cerebellums.</p>
<p>However, hazmat you have shown me the indignance of a thousand hard cover books. Please do some research and you will see that Penn is in the Ivy league.</p>
<p>Your post stated Penn State.........so your memory is also faulty?</p>
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Define "slightly lower tier than ivies." Do you mean MIT? Because in my opinion MIT is only slightly worse than the Ivies. It may even surpass in academic excellence certain Ivy leagues such as** Penn State.**
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<p>You have sucked all of the oxygen from the room..........a tool.</p>
<p>please read my above post, grits</p>
<p>Penn is the abbreviation for University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State</p>
<p>Penn State is in no way an ivy. You shouldn't have been referring to Penn State at all, in the context of your post.</p>
<p>Furthermore, saying that MIT may surpass in academic excellence another ivy league school is an very assuming conclusion......such great schools are difficult to compare, they are all great and there's no real "surpassing".....that's all opinion</p>
<p>Wow hazmat, I am appalled by your ignorance. Tools do not require oxygen to function. They are INANIMATE OBJECTS. I believe you may be confusing them with common house plants, which use oxygen in respiration.</p>
<p>ignoring, ignoring</p>
<p>Well, visiting Brown won't help in admissions -- they don't track it. They don't even have a sign-in sheet.</p>
<p>not at all? that's weird. i think we should get some kind of credit if we made a point to come...separates us from people who just sent in a copy of the common app for the heck of it</p>
<p>maybe there's a way to get around this at Brown, so you get at least some kind of notice.....like getting to meet with an admissions person or something?</p>
<p>I agree -- especially when you're coming from as far away as Texas!</p>