Our Vermont high school quietly ended recruiting visits from colleges, ending up with just one or two “mini-fairs” (two hours) planned for the fall.
Are these no longer considered helpful to applicants? I found them pretty helpful with our first two kids but it looks like #3 won’t have the opportunity.
Would appreciate hearing people’s experiences - wondering if this is a trend among high schools or just something weird that our HS is doing.
I live in pretty rural area where there aren’t many colleges within easy driving distances. We had our daughter visit reps and she’d often go with a list of questions. They were very helpful to our daughter.
LizinVT…I can’t answer your question, but will comment since my kids grew up in Vermont. With my two kids, only ONE college on both kids’ lists even visited our high school (and that visit was certainly helpful to that daughter). So, I don’t know which colleges your kids are interested in, but the ones my kids were, did not visit our rural high school.
I cannot see why your school would eliminate college reps visiting. That doesn’t make sense to me because these visits are beneficial to students. I wonder if your HS didn’t like that it pulled kids out of class?
At my daughters’ school, they usually scheduled the visits for first period or lunch. Lunch ran for 20 minute periods, and I think there were 3-4 of them. DD1 hardly went to any because she wasn’t interested in them. DD2 hardly went to any because she could never fit them in, had to be in class, had the wrong lunch period. One I really wanted her to go to she missed because she thought it was going to be during lunch and it was first period.