<p>After you get accepted, how do college visits work? I honestly don't know much about the universities except for the name, the information on the website, and the brochures (if I'm lucky, I have seen the trees and buildings in the campus tour). </p>
<p>Do you do an overnight stay at all the colleges you're considering? I don't know where I would find the time to visit both the east and west coast. I wouldn't be worried about this now except I'm wondering if I should apply to any schools regular action if I won't even consider them seriously.</p>
<p>Can’t imagine going away to school without having set foot on campus.</p>
<p>The value of an overnight stay is debated on this site. It was quite valuable for my D when she was deciding. A complete shuffling of choices after the visits. I think you can get a lot of value just from spending a day at a school without the overnight. Go on a tour, sit in on a class, talk to a professor in an area that interests you.</p>
<p>For us, we just called the school and arranged a day to be there. Made sure classes were in session. Stayed away from the “visit day” sort of thing. Preferred to see an avaerage day at the school.</p>
<p>There should be many important factors in your decision. One which may be major or minor depending upon your point of view is the weather. If you are from a warm weather state attending college in a northern state can be a real change. One student from a sunshine state visited a school in Illinois during a blizzard. She was unable to even see the campus buildings due to the driving snow. It was nearly impossible to walk the pathways.</p>
<p>However, if you love to ski, ice skate and enjoy winter sports a northern state may be just the place you have been dreaming about.</p>
<p>Thankfully I’ve already been to two of my top three choices on “unofficial” visits with my brothers. I really got a sense of the school and the life there. No classes being attended or studying going on…even though both were during the week. XD</p>