<p>So I am a high school senior this year and I was wondering if you have to go to college visits in order to increase your chances of getting in to that college. I want to go to a school in California but I live in Maryland. My friend told me that if you don't visit the college, it would make the admission committee think that you are just applying there for no reason... I would visit there if only my family had the money to do so...</p>
<p>No, there’s other ways of showing interest. Is the college going to visit your high school?</p>
<p>Some schools also have programmes to fly in low income students for visits.</p>
<p>See if they’re visiting your high school or any fairs in your area, and also considerin emailing the admissions rep for your state, explaining essentially that you love their college but that you aren’t able to visit.</p>
<p>um I don’t think Berkeley will be visiting our school… So if I ask them if they can come to our school, will the school acknowledge me for my passion for Berkeley?</p>
<p>Some schools consider level of interest in evaluating an applicant’s application; others don’t. Berkeley does not consider level of interest as per their common data set, so I would not worry about it:
<a href=“http://opa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/UC%20Berkeley%20CDS%202013-14%20(July).pdf”>http://opa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/UC%20Berkeley%20CDS%202013-14%20(July).pdf</a>
You can google “college name” and “common data set” to bring up this info for many universities.</p>