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<li>but have not yet been admitted? You wd not be collecting info for the app, and if you are not going to be admitted anyway, you just wasted lots of time and money. Money is tight for us now. TIme is tight too. THere seems to be two reasons to visit a school:</li>
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<p>1) student gathering information on the college
----for an informed application for admission (a visit is logical BEFORE application)
----for an informed decision after acceptance (a visit is logical AFTER admission)</p>
<p>2) college gathering information on the student
----to give the college better information by which it can decide to admit or not (a visit is logical BEFORE the admission decision, which cd be before application or before the admit/deny decision, but it is unclear when the date to admit or deny is).</p>
<p>Only reason I’d see is if you were doing an on-campus interview, which could knock out two birds with one stone; get a feel for the location/campus while getting a potentially more informative interview.</p>
<p>never hurts to visit a college</p>
<p>Don’t go if money is that tight. </p>
<p>However, it would make sense if you knew you had a decent chance of getting in, but if it’s a far reach, I don’t see a reason to visit before you hear from the school. I would visit Boston College but not Stanford, visit American University but not Harvard… You get the idea. It can actually save time when you have heard from your schools and are trying to make a decision. If you get as much of your research done before April, you can save time by visiting only your reaches you’ve been accepted to.</p>
<p>So you are suggesting that you still might get some ‘admission points’ for showing interest in the college even after the app is submitted. We are speakiing about non uber reaches, mini reaches. makes sense to look at the reachability of the college.</p>
<p>I’d suggest waiting till you get the bulk of your admissions decisions back, then visit your top. It’s a good idea to take college tours, but if you can try to knock out more than one college in your visit if your traveling out of state. I told my daughter we were waiting because we will be one of those out of state visitors :)</p>
<p>I have same question - We had scheduled a trip to CA in Feb and want to go visit. Two schools have deferred DD to regular decision and the others are RD anyway. We have not visited any of these schools before this. Should she just call them up, say she’s coming for vacation and schedule just an interview?</p>
<p>We are visiting schools that my daughter was accepted to. If there are schools close by, that she is waiting to hear from RD, we will attempt those as well.</p>
<p>She applied to too many schools to visit them prior to acceptances.</p>