<p>When my brother was applying to colleges and visiting them, I accompanied him. Now, it is my turn to apply to colleges. On one of my college applications, it asked if I have ever visited the school. I personally did not request a visit during my College Campaign (lol), but I did visit the school with my brother. But will the College know this? I dont want to be caught in a "lie."</p>
<p>Does the app ask for a date of visitation?
I don't know if this is true or not but this is my assumption--if they don't ask for a date, it's fine for you to write that you did visit--I mean you did tour the school and everything, right? If they ask for a date, it might be a little trickier--often when you make official reservations for visits, you have to fill out info cards at the actual session which goes into computer records, I think so they might refer back to those? I might be totally wrong though.</p>
<p>Best thing to do is just call them up and ask, "I visited with my brother when he was visiting colleges--does this qualify?"</p>
<p>I don't think that is a visit. But you can call.</p>
<p>I think it counts as a visit. The reason colleges are interested in whether you visited or not is that it lets them know you're applying knowing something about the school, and having actually been there, and not just that you've read it on a list of schools somewhere, or a guidebook, or that kind of thing. It lets them know your application is an informed one, so it's less likely you're just applying based on nothing, and hence less likely to actually attend if you're accepted.</p>
<p>As to the little cards you sometimes fill out, my son and I visited several places where we didn't fill out the card. We did the tours, the info sessions. I certainly would state that we had visited, card or no card.</p>
<p>If my daughter (who, like you, went on some visits to colleges with her older brother) was applying under those circumstances I would definitely advise her to say, yes, she visited. Because she did!</p>