<p>Diversity/visiting weekends </p>
<p>Some colleges offer FREE (all expenses paid) visiting weekends such as amherst, williams, and swarthmore. Do you guys know of any other ones? any liberal art OR research universities. </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Are these free for accepted or prospective students?</p>
<p>there's one at connecticut college and one at bates too. and they're for prospective students.</p>
<p>Cornell does</p>
<p>WashU has one.</p>
<p>oh and haverford too.</p>
<p>Many schools offer free fly outs for URMs either in the fall of senior year or in the spring (before or after acceptances). These are the schools I know offer fly in weekends, there are likely many others as I was directing my search at the types of schools my D was interested in. Also, if you are interested in a school, you can always ask if they are willing to fly you in to see them, they can only say no. The key is to go on the college websites and register for information at any school you're interested in. Be sure to check to see if they have any offices or people dedicated to Diversity recruitment. If so, drop them a line and ask a question or two about the school, just to get on their radar screen. Being a Venture scholar or NHRP will help get your name out to schools too. </p>
<p>Fall:
WUSTL Discovery weekend
Amherst Diversity Open House weekends
Dartmouth Bound
Swarthmore Multicultural days
CMU Celebration of Diversity weekend
Cornell Engineering weekend
Smith, Carleton, Tufts, Macalester, Kenyon, Williams, Wesleyan, Grinnell</p>
<p>Spring:
Rice Vision
Emory Multicultural weekend
WUSTL Multicultural weekend
Dartmouth Dimensions
Vanderbilt Mosaic</p>
<p>Cornell has Multicultural Visitation Program in the fall for prospective students and Diversity Hosting Weekend for accepted students</p>
<p>wow thanks entomom, that's exactly what I am looking for :)</p>
<p>for the washu program, it's not free right? we have to pay for our own air fare?</p>
<p>oo and how do you get the darthmouth bound thing? is it regional because no one I know has every gone to that one, but then... I live in los angeles :(</p>
<p>WashU Multiultural Weekend in April is free. They pay for airfare and everything.</p>
<p>Tufts Telescope</p>
<p>Scripps (Claremont, CA) is this Sunday/Monday.What is "NHRP"?</p>
<p>You're welcome! </p>
<p>WUSTL made the flight arrangements and paid everything for my D to attend the Discovery weekend. But I know that wasn't true for everyone attending, there was a thread last year on the WUSTL forum that talked about it.</p>
<p>NHRP is National Hispanic Recognition Program. It is similar to National Acheivement but for Latinos. There are no scholarships involved but they do send out a CD containing the names of scholars to many colleges. And that's one way you get invitations to these weekends.</p>
<p>My D never got an invitation to the Dartmouth weekend, but we had already visited, so that may be why. Search the Dartmouth forum and there should be threads from last year, otherwise, send them an email requesting information. </p>
<p>As I recall, my D got direct invitations for WUSTL and Rice, but had to apply for the Amherst weekend.</p>
<p>TrackBabi, do you have to pay for your transportation to the Cornell weekends if you're not in one of the major cities that they provide a bus to in the NE? Thought that was the case but maybe it was somewhere else.</p>
<p>I actually have a question about the Diversity weekends. If I can't attend one because of scheduling conflicts, how do I let the Admissions Officer or Director of Recruitment know that I'm still interested??</p>
<p>Send them an email telling them about the conflict and assuring them that you are still very interested in their school. Your situation is not unusual and shouldn't be a problem for admissions.</p>
<p>omg im going to the washu discovery weekend, all-expenses paid!!! im excited, who else is coming?</p>
<p>I know Duke's BSAI program is supposedly really good for admitted students in the spring.</p>
<p>Hey is anyone going to University of Chicago's Students of color open house? Do you know if they offer to fly people in? I e-mailed asking them this yesterday, but got no response.</p>
<p>Also jenny790, where is the information for Discovery Weekend on WashU's site?</p>