<p>I was admitted to Smith and am having a hard time choosing the right college
for me.
Smith College is pretty far from my house, and I was wodering if visiting Smith would worth it..</p>
<p>If you're seriously considering any college, a visit is imperative, assuming one has the means to get there.</p>
<p>Visiting Smith was instrumental for my D, as was visiting Columbia, to vastly different effects.</p>
<p>And fwiw, visiting both Smith and Wellesley after acceptance [apparently] confirmed her inclination towards Smith. Though I'll always have a small warm spot in my heart for W's "likely" letter, which removed a lot of pressure and tension.</p>
<p>You can't really evaluate colleges on paper. Even colleges that might seem kinda similar on paper will have differences that show up on visits, some of them deal-makers. Or the other way around.</p>
<p>Like everyone else is saying, it really does confirm that a college is or isn't for you. </p>
<p>For me, I already knew that I would like Smith and I did when I visited. However, the next day, when I visited Amherst, which I thought to be my dream school, the minute I stepped out of the car, I tried to convince my father to leave. It didn't feel right and I was really scared. I didn't know why until I went through the tour and information session. The atmosphere was too portentous and even though everyone in my tour session had just met, cliques immediatly formed, and I felt left out.</p>
<p>You should visit and spend the night if you can, at any school you are seriously considering. It is where you will spend the next four years of your life! Sometimes what looks good on paper, really isn't...and vice-versa. Smith has a beautiful campus, but it is the intelligent women that attend there who make it what it is...diverse, heady, intellectual.</p>
<p>In our experience, Smith is so different from the other liberal arts colleges we visited in tone (and offerings) that we would never have figured this out without visiting.</p>
<p>Agree with Mini and other preceding posters.</p>
<p>Don't know if you have applied and visited other women's colleges. If not, visiting a women's college would be imperative before deciding to attend one. Having said that, there are significant differences in the location and character among the "seven sister" schools (excluding Vassar and Radcliffe now). These are addressed by current students, alumni, and parents in other threads. If you can afford it, I would definitely visit and stay overnight, preferably over a weekend. My daughter visited Smith several times before applying but pretty much made up her mind after her first visit that it was the right college for her. The other trips were her chances to leave home to travel on her own, ostensibly "to learn more" about Smith. FYI, she has enjoyed her experience at Smith immensely. However, it is not for everybody and ideally should be checked out by you in person before making a decision one way or the other.</p>