<p>:D Good luck to all regular decision applicants now that all your materials are in!! </p>
<p>Of the early acceptees, who here is going to CPW?? (remember to book your tickets, the earlier, the cheaper)</p>
<p>I'm going. :)</p>
<p>(but you already knew that)</p>
<p>I'm going. have you already bought plane tickets?!</p>
<p>Thank you pebbles.</p>
<p>I definitely will go to the CPW if I'm admitted and meet you all there!</p>
<p>EDIT: Looks like CPW is coming up. Hrmm I thought it is going to take place in April after RA decisions are released.</p>
<p>CPW is April 7 - 10.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen a schedule of CPW from this year or prior years? Do activities start in the morning or the evening of the first day? ie - should people arrive on the 6th, or arrive on the 7th?</p>
<p>arrive on the 7th. They dont have housing for people until the night of the 7th. And morning tends to be just registration and classes. When you get to cpw, ask about the tangerine tours.</p>
<p>No, I don't need plane tickets :)</p>
<p>But most I people know have begun to book them!</p>
<p>does anyone have a link to last year's CPW schedule?</p>
<p>I called MIT this week to ask (sorry for barging in here -- I'm a parent and was trying to figure out if I needed to book tickets for myself to visit also). They told me registration starts at 9am on the 7th, and housing is provided for the 7th, 8th, and 9th, with the program ending by noon on the 10th. However, for those students flying in from the west coast (like ours), it's impractical to get there on the 7th, so we will likely fly them in on the 6th and rent a hotel room for a bunch of them that night so they can be there before the afternoon of the 7th. There is no MIT housing nor airport shuttle service provided on the 6th. Schedule for the weekend is not yet ready, but might be ready for preview by EA admits later in Jan. through MyMIT (that's what the woman I talked with thought anyway). Hope this helps.</p>
<p>mootmom - that helps a lot. We are not all the way on the west coast, but by the time you layover somewhere and change planes it is also impractical to get there earlier than mid-afternoon. I'm wondering if we should go the 6th also. Did the lady you talked to indicate what kids would do during the day on the 7th, or what is the latest time they can register on the 7th?</p>
<p>So did you book for yourself also? I'm also a parent undecided about whether or not to go.</p>
<p>texas137, I suspect folks who did CPW in previous years can comment more intelligently than I can :-) but the woman told me that registration was in the morning on the 7th with classes, activities, etc. starting by afternoon, so we're planning on flight(s) for the 6th (hoping to get a direct flight from SFO). There is a separate schedule of meetings and tours for parents (financial aid, campus health services, inside of dorms, etc.) along with food and receptions by alumni groups, etc. (Parents, of course, will not stay on campus -- dunno yet what help/suggestions they'll have for hotel facilities nearby.) I requested that if parents have lots of food-related receptions, they might provide us with guest passes to the gym for the weekend, LOL! (Although I was truly not kidding, I'd LOVE to spend time in that athletic center!) </p>
<p>I have not yet decided whether to attend or not -- hope to decide in the next week or so. I am leaning towards going, to have a better feel for the place where my S is likely to spend the next 4 years ... and to meet other parents! (Think we should start a "Parents who will be attending CPW" thread to keep in touch and pick a hotel together? :-)</p>
<p>if my husband and I go, we'll be staying at the Mariott,which is very near campus and the T-station. The Hotel at MIT is even closer and has a neat technical design motif, but is $200 a night. I would probably be worth asking about a discount at either place for people attending MIT events.</p>
<p>It would also like to use the recreational facilities. They were under construction when we toured MIT several years ago, but look fabulous on the website.</p>