<p>What are good questions to ask a college admissions officer/representative?</p>
<p>I am meeting with someone soon and I want to have good questions to make the most of the opportunity. What are good, unique, or ingenious questions?</p>
<p>Any and all input is appreciated!</p>
<p>I usually checked beforehand whether the college rep was a graduate of the college, and if so, asked them about their experience at the college. What were the highlights of the experience, what did they wish they had done differently.</p>
<p>I also asked for any specific tips about the application process (common pitfalls for applicants, etc.) Nothing unique or ingenious, but I had some very enjoyable and interesting interviews.</p>
<p>There are no. universal questions you can ask that will wow any admissions officer from any college. Asking good questions is a way to show your level of interest in the school. Which means you’ve read through their materials, read through the viewbook if they sent you one, and have given some thought about how it all applies to you. Then based on your background and interests you form some questions. Questions that aren’t already answered in the aforementioned materials. Questions that show you’ve taken the time to try and understand what is unique about this college. It’s not magic, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all situation either</p>
<p>You know, I had the same problem at first. But once I perused colleges’ websites, many questions came to my mind, really specific and interesting ones. I guess you can hardly find any questions that could work for every single school, and, moreover, you’d probably spend even more time making up such questions than just reading through the websites. </p>
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<p>Don’t just ask the generic stuff, think outside the box.</p>
<p>The Adcom person wants to get to know YOU, and seeing what questions you ask helps him/her do that. Our question suggestions won’t help in that. My daughters asked questions that came from their interests: opportunities for community service, whether or not there was any evidence of discrimination/acceptance of gay students, etc.</p>