<p>Will you have a better chance of getting in if you visit? How does visiting work in with the admissions?</p>
<p>I think it would have made a difference with Rice and Carnegie Mellon if son had visited. Especially if you are borderline, you may impress someone with the interview.</p>
<p>Depends on the school.</p>
<p>Some colleges have policies about demonstrated interest. Stanford University, for instance, does not consider demonstrated interest when reviewing applications. Other colleges do. </p>
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<p>Based upon our experience over the last year all of the lacs my D applied to tracked interest and that included tour, info session, interview(even if not required),overnight stay etc.</p>
<p>Dana's Dad</p>
<p>But don't panic - there are other ways to express interest. E-mailing, off-campus interviews, etc. can show interest. Colleges understand if you're too far away to visit (say, more than 3 hours away by car, or necessitating a flight).</p>
<p>chedva (or anyone who would like to drop in their two cents), what would you email about?</p>
<p>I think a lot of people can't visit. I know I planned for 3 weeks East Coast tour but had to cancel because of work commitment. But I do tell my D to reply to those brochures that they sent so they know she is interested in the schools.
But my philosophy is that if any school holds it against you for not visiting, that is one more reason for you not to attend that particular school. :)</p>
<p>Yeah I'm 6-12 hours away to pretty much all the schools I'm looking at.....the closest one is 3 hours away and thats IN my state</p>
<p>Stanford and Brown definitely don't track visits; last year, Brown didn't ask for visitors to sign in. I'm almost certain that HYP don't care much about visits; with their yield, they don't need to. I live an easy car ride from Yale, didn't visit in high school or have an on-campus interview, and still got in RD. Dartmouth, Cornell (?), and Columbia ask on their supplements if you've visited, and demonstrated interest is allegedly really important at WashU and smaller LACs.</p>
<p>..But, if you can, a campus visit is useful for personal reasons, even if the school doesn't officially track it.</p>
<p>I know some schools on their websites state that if you visit them, they will wave the application fee. Not HYPMS.</p>
<p>Emory is the only school that I have visited so far that has openly come out and said that Demonstrated Interest is a major component of an applicant's file. I assume most college admissions officers will be reminded of any contacts they have had with applicants when reviewing their files, so it may be to your advantage to demonstrate interest even if the school claims they don't acknowledge that.</p>
<p>watchmeshine - Colleges offer other opportunities to express interest, such as...
*Asking a current student call/email you to see if you have questions.
*Inviting you to attend chat sessions online.
*Having faculty send you information in email - click their links and thank them!</p>
<p>My S did not take advantage of these opportunities, but his w/l record tells me he should have!</p>