<p>Hey everyone. I'm going to visit a school for the first time next week, and I'm wondering what kind of questions I should ask. Anything you wish you had asked while you were visiting? Anything is helpful. Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, when I was visiting last April, I had researched the academics of all of the schools I went to see. That being said, the questions I had were pretty much about housing and student life at the school.</p>
<p>I wish I would have asked about dorms and how stringent policies were for co-ed visitors and such. Also, I forgot to ask some colleges how often the typical student ventured into the city (something that was really important to me).</p>
<p>Overall, just remember to ask the questions you really want to know. Think about how your 'dream college experience' would be and see how closely the school fits.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks so much!</p>
<p>At the college visits I've been on, students ask very, very few questions. If the parents didn't pipe up, most of the time no one would talk but the tour guide. (The exception is HYP, where the hard-charging types ask questions at info sessions, albeit completely devoted to "getting in" strategies.) The one thing that students always seem to ask about is the AP policy, which amazes me since you can glean that info from every school web site. It's as if students are afraid of revealing something by asking a question that actually matters to them.</p>
<p>Ask questions about ECs and quality of life things that matter to you. That's my advice. Find out if YOU want to go THERE, not if you can get in.</p>
<h1>1. Decide what is important to your college experience. For example, do you want small classes, or will you be comfortable with larger classes? Do you want undergraduate research opportunities, or will you be majoring in a subject in which research in not important? Ask questions that probe how well the school you're visiting will satisfy the things that are important to you.</h1>
<h1>2. The tour guides themselves are usually paid by an admissions office that wants to attract students to their school. As such tour guides are quite biased. Try to give your questions to regular students if you have the chance. Their opinions will be more insightful.</h1>
<p>thanks, everyone</p>
<p>one question I always asked on my visits...what is the most popular complaint around campus?</p>
<p>Ask about dorming. Most kids and parents have no idea what the housing situation is like. Is there overenrollment, forced triples, how many years of housing? At one univ. we found out on the tour that housing was guaranteed for 2 yrs but 37 of the sophmores were put up in a motel a few miles away from campus and had to get a bus to campus.
For some universities, ask if classes get closed out or are difficult to get.
Ask about career center, extra help, tutoring options.
Ask about class size and professor involvement if that is important or research opportunities.
Ask about extracurriculars that may be important to you (music, sports, clubs, etc) My D found out she would have to play in the band at a consortium school as the college she was touring didn't have a band but shared their members with a neighboring school.
Ask about security, dorm entry precautions, etc. and types of dorms available e.g. choice for no drugs/alcohol, coed, quiet, if any of that is important to you. </p>
<p>Have fun!</p>
<p>quack i really like that - that's really good.</p>
<p>What i do is usually concentrate on social life and things that numbers/data can't tell you. As many have previously mentioned, ask what you want to know.</p>