<p>And before you had a good idea which one was your first choice?</p>
<p>OK Let me ask another question then: How many colleges are you planning to visit before applying? Will you only apply to colleges you have visited? How many is too many?</p>
<p>I’m more than likely visiting 0 schools before applying, unless somehow a school visit to a school makes me want to place it on my list.</p>
<p>i visited probably 12 before applying.</p>
<p>i think visiting a school may affect their decision about accepting you, at least in the SUNY system in new york. i got into albany but i didnt get into some other suny schools that were supposed to be easier to get into and i signed up for albany’s tour, maybe it was cause i mentioned my interest in physics when i applied and they just spent a bagillion dollars on a nano science building and needed to fill it with students? i dont know thats one of the reasons i made my website [url=<a href=“http://www.newtoschool.com%5DNewToSchool.com%5B/url”>http://www.newtoschool.com]NewToSchool.com[/url</a>]</p>
<p>ermm…prob 2 ish
i don’t have the money to visit</p>
<p>I visited 6, but I’m going to apply to 5 of them.</p>
<p>Visited:
Northwestern
U of Michigan
U of Illinois
U of Southern California
Caltech
Stanford</p>
<p>Applying:
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Cornell
U Penn
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon
U of Southern California
U of Michigan
U of Illinois
U of Nebraska (safety)</p>
<p>S will have visited 11 so far and will probaly be 15 be the time he applys</p>
<p>Last year when I heard some kids visited 17 schools I thought no way! We will never do that! But here he is approaching 15 schools. </p>
<p>He will apply to one far away school that he has not seen and go visit if the financial aid seems worth it/</p>
<p>I don’t believe in visiting schools. Visits are usually WAY too short of a time to judge how the school is gonna be in the long haul.</p>
<p>That said, I visited 2 of the 10 schools I applied to.</p>
<p>I visited 17 and knocked off about 7 from my list after visiting.</p>
<p>There is a difference between vising a school and getting to know a school. </p>
<p>Visiting means you take the campus tour, drive around the area, and if you are diligent, maybe talk to one student outside of the tour guides. </p>
<p>Getting to know a school means more than just a campus tour and knowing the statistics. </p>
<p>If you do plan on spending time on a college visit, the four best things you can do are a) eat a meal in the dining hall (you’ll be there a lot), b) see a dorm (not all tours offer this feature), c) sit in on a class in a field you are interested in and d) talk to a random student. If they are happy with the school, they will definitely show it when they talk to you. If they aren’t happy, what makes you think you will be?</p>
<p>I personally visited Tulane (after a tour, decided it wasn’t for me), Florida Atlantic (drove through just because parents wanted to), Princeton (the tour made a lasting impression, but I’m pretty sure the tour isn’t the entire college), and UPenn (just driving up to the campus, I knew I didn’t want to go there). </p>
<p>I got to know the University of Florida and the University of Notre Dame by doing camps at both colleges. While I spent three weeks at each campus, I belive that even just 24 hours would have been sufficient. </p>
<p>I ended up applying to some of the above, and then spur of the moment, the University of Miami, even though I had never seen the campus. I now attend the University of Miami. I only saw the campus once during an accepted students weekend before deciding. Now, I cant see myself anywhere else. </p>
<p>Moral of the story: seeing a campus is nice, a tour is better, and getting to know a campus is the best. Yet sometimes, even after all the preparation you have done, its the random one that you didn’t really research or plan to attend that is where you actually belong. Good luck!</p>
<p>My son visited 3 schools before applying and then 3 more after applying but before getting a decision.</p>
<p>0, i only visited schools after they accepted me, and i fell in love with Syracuse’s campus!</p>
<p>I visited 4 schools and crossed 3/4 off my list. I disagree that a visit is too short to figure out if the school will be a fit in the long run. A visit can tell you a lot about the atmosphere of a school, which is hard to imagine until you actually step on campus.</p>
<p>By the time I apply, I’ll have visited 7-9 of my original list. So far, I’ve visited 6 and have decided to keep 3 of them on the list. After results come in I’ll probably seriously revisit my top 2-3 choices, staying overnight and doing accepted students’ programs and everything.</p>
<p>I visited 6, but 5 of them were on a 4 day college tour I took in the spring of my junior year with the African-Latino club at my school and I was only even remotely interested in 2 of them. The 6th one I visited was with my dad and a friend who also wanted to see it.</p>
<p>In the fall I had planned on visiting the rest of the schools that I was going to apply to, but I got really sick and I couldn’t do visits, so I didn’t visit most of the schools I applied to until AFTER I got accepted…and even then I only went to see 2 (out of 8) because that was enough to make my decision because I had narrowed my choices down to 3 and I had already seen one.</p>
<p>visited 3 with tours (UF, FSU, UM), 3[4?] without (UGA, GT, Penn [GA State? hard to tell since there is no campus lol]), so 6[7?]
Applied to 12</p>
<p>Visit schools the STUDENT is serious about. Make it an overnight visit when school is in session. </p>
<p>DD visited 7 schools the summer after her sophomore year. She wasn’t terribly interested, but I said I would pay for her plane ticket to visit her friend on the East coast if the trip included college visits. I learned two things: DD doesn’t want to go to school in a small town, and a visit wasn’t going to get her interested in a school. (DD agreed about a couple schools on my list but not hers being very nice, but never got interested enough to apply.)</p>
<p>She visited two schools when she was a more serious about the search, one overnight.</p>
<p>In the end she applied to 7 schools-- two from the original tour, one that she visited overnight as a senior,two state schools (never toured but has been on campus at one), and two more she hadn’t visited. She is attending one she didn’t visit until admitted. </p>
<p>All-in-all I didn’t find the visits particularly helpful, at least not the ones that were limited campus tour and info session. DD ruled out one school that might otherwise have been on her list (Chicago-- kind of a shame, but neither of us was enthusiastic after the visit). What was worthwhile was letting her choose what she was interested in and then visiting overnight. </p>
<p>One other comment-- the application fee costs less than a typical visit. It’s nice to visit before applying, but for reaches it makes some sense to wait and see whether you are accepted.</p>
<p>I’m planning on only visiting ones close to me (in my state or close to me in other states surrounding my state) before I apply. Once I find out which schools I’m accepted at I will visit the rest that accepted me. </p>
<p>…if I had the money to spend on going to all the schools I would but I am not that fourtunate. :)</p>
<p>University of Miami (hated)
Northeastern (hated)
American (hated)
UConn
Temple
BU</p>
<p>That was it.</p>