<p>So, if you can't visit all the colleges you were accepted at, what ways will you (or did you) go about gathering all the information you need to make your decision as to which college will be the ideal choice -- particularly when you have not visited all of them?</p>
<p>I'd love to get suggestions on the best ways you think you can remotely gather information that will lead to a wise choice as to the best "fit" college.</p>
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<p>Check to see if those colleges have admitted student days in your area.</p>
<p>Also spend a lot of time researching this site (and others) where current and former students give their thoughts about their experiences.</p>
<p>For academic questions, spend some time reading through the course offerings, not only in your prospective major, but in other departments. Pay attention to college/university-wide graduation requirements not just to what your department offers. What are the gen-ed or distribution requirements like? Is the information presented in a way that is easy for you to understand? How do you feel about those specific requirements? </p>
<p>Take a look at the presentation of information about financial aid, housing, internships, job placement, study abroad, etc. Can you find out everything you need to know easily, or is it confusing to you? Do they have a good track record for internships an job placement? Call the career center and ask them a couple of questions about where students with the major that you are interested in end up. You can learn a lot from a quick phone conversation.</p>
<p>Poke around the schools’ websites and see if they post any student publications online. Reading the student newspaper can offer you some new perspectives.</p>
<p>Make a list of the things that are the most important to you, adding at the end the stuff that makes life a bit easier, but not deal breakers. Then rate each college on that category. Have your parents throw in things that matter to them too.</p>
<p>Some things may be instant deal breakers. Cost, for instance. The top priced schools that were unreachable without some severe financial scrambling got tossed immediately. Love Holy Cross but $50K+ doesn’t make the cut. The only schools on the list are the ones that are financially doable and then are rated as to how doable. Our State Us and two small schools get very high marks for affordability but S confessed that he really doesn’t want to go to any of them. So, off the list they go. Two very similar schools on the list, and A is preferred to B, so B is off the list. We now have schools that are in a dead heat and we need to focus on the the details to make the big decision which one to pick. But at this point, there really is no bad choice. He likes them all, they’re all affordable. Had he only gotten into any one of them, he would be going to that school He can draw them out of a hat/</p>
<p>Ask your old and trusted CC friends to choose for you! HAHAHA</p>
<p>See if you can speak to, email some students at the college, so that you can ask them questions about the little things.</p>