<p>Hi parents, I would've posted this elsewhere but I have a feeling I'd receive more accurate info here. Can anyone give me a rough list of colleges that tour the nation and give info sessions outside their campus (such as Carnegie Mellon & Yale)? Specifically in Virginia?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Okay, and I just got a letter from Brown spreading the love to Virginia.</p>
<p>Feel free to add to the list...also, I'm attending these sessions alone, driving up to 7 hours alone to visit, is it okay that my parents aren't with me? I'm basically the only one involved with my college education.</p>
<p>Also, isn't it weird that they didn't send me the letter until now, after the Tuesday, Sept 19 info session with reps from Columbia, Cornell, Rice, and UChicago? I would've certainly attended that one (kill a couple of birds with 1 stone), but I had no idea ... as if they didn't want their potential applicants to find more info from other reps?</p>
<p>A very large number of colleges offer info sessions off-campus; it might actually be easier to make a list of colleges that DON'T offer some such session. Some just visit schools in states near their "territory", and some travel nationwide. The best thing for you to do would be to check the admissions websites for the schools you're interested in and see what they list. (For instance, in responses to your similar post in the MIT forum, you'll see that MIT publishes a list of the locations they're traveling to, along with even the name of which Admissions Officer will give each session.)</p>
<p>Another option is to talk with your school guidance office. That office might have a list of colleges which they know will be bringing info sessions to your area. Sometimes college reps will come to schools to provide mini info sessions, or more often there may be a "College Night" where a number of schools set up in a gym or large conference room so prospective students can wander around the tables and gather information on a number of schools in one evening. There should be no problem with you attending these sessions alone.</p>
<p>Don't count on schools writing to you in time or even sending out mailings, unless you've already requested an application or put yourself on their online contact list. More likely, it will be your job to go find the sessions you want to attend.</p>
<p>Thanks mootmom for your thoughtful response. The admissions websites tend to be disorganized and 'maze-like', making it a little hard to find the off campus info session schedules when you're short on time (except MIT's website of course! that baby is beautiful). I actually live in the middle of nowhere, so there is no intellectual guidance counselor or 'name' colleges visiting my school, but that is a good tip to anyone else wondering. And due to this fact, visiting colleges that are probably too far away by car is really just...not an option right now. I know that's not the best way to get a feel for a college, but it'll have to do for now, so I'm scheduling colleges visiting nearby only. But great advice for kids who are able to visit colleges out of their 'territory'...if you can fly, hey go for it!</p>
<p>Oh, also, when a college says information session, they mean like a tell and then ask question session/give brochures thing, right? I went to a local college fair and it's not really "informational", more you go and take brochures and ask questions and that's it...I'm looking for something to tell me more about the college that may not be realized first hand, like where I can learn more without having to have specific questions in mind. Do you see what I mean?</p>
<p>I would recommend that you sign up for the mailing list for any college you are interested in. The colleges are pretty good about sending notice of any events planned in your area -- just keep an eye out for that, as its easy to overlook when you are getting a lot of mail from colleges.</p>