<p>My parents don't understand all the stuff that is involved with choosing a college. I begged and cried and they relented on letting me got to Cornell on a FREE trip!!
I got accepted to University of Chicago and they are also giving me a FREE trip, but they won't let me go. I have always been in Love with The U of C, so I feel that I need to go visit before I make my choice.
They say is because I'm going alone and because I will miss a lot of school and that's not really good for me at this moment.....I agree BUT......
I will miss Thursday and Friday of three weeks of April..
Any comments would be appreciated :D</p>
<p>Tell them you’re going to be going away for college soon anyways so you need to learn how to be independent and these trips would give you some experience. Also you want to make the right choice of where you want to spend the next four years of your life so visiting these colleges would really help. It won’t cost them anything either. And you’ll only be missing two days of school.</p>
<p>Good luck! I really hope you’re able to convince them because it’s really helpful to visit colleges. I weeded out colleges from my college list after I visited some.</p>
<p>it’s not going to cost them anything and they still won’t let you? How can you make an informed decision without seeing the school. </p>
<p>I have seen many colleges and they are all different, different vibe, locale, many factors.</p>
<p>College is all about 'Fit". how can you know if you fit in, if you don’t try it on.</p>
<p>Do they buy clothes off the internet? Did they find their spouse through online dating?
It’s a huge decision. High schools are totally cool with your visiting, maybe your college counselor at school would talk to them?</p>
<p>Ditto on how they will have to accept you being an independent person sooner or later, and this includes travel, and how you absolutely need to visit. College is a HUGE investment of both time and money, and should not be decided on a whim. </p>
<p>Besides, it’s second semester senior year. What would you miss in a few spread-out days that’s really so important that you would sacrifice your ability to make a good decision about the next four years of your life for it? I missed probably ten days in just the last quarter of my senior year, and I turned out just fine.</p>
<p>You need to find out why they think it isn’t necessary for you to visit the schools.</p>
<p>Did you visit already?</p>
<p>Did each school offer you enough financial aid so that your family can realistically afford to send you to that school?</p>
<p>Are you really undecided between these three schools, or do you just want to play tourist because you have a chance to do so?</p>
<p>Are you keeping up in your schoolwork so that your teachers won’t mind if you miss six days of classes during April?</p>
<p>If you have to travel on your own, would you have direct flights or would you have to change airports? How will you get from the airport to the college/university? Have you traveled by air before, or would this be the first time?</p>
<p>If you were my child, and you how you answered these questions would affect my decision about letting you go or not. Find out what additional questions your parents have, answer them all, and you may be able to convince them to let you travel.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>