Regional College Information Sessions - helpful?

<p>I posted this in the College Search forum, but no one responded so I decided to try here.</p>

<p>I signed up to go to Exploring Educational Excellence, an information session hosted by Brown, Rice, and Cornell, to name a few. But it looks like the location of the session is a bit of a hassle to get to...</p>

<p>so I was wondering... how valuable are these types of sessions? What kinds of things should I expect them to talk about? Is there anything they'll talk about that I can't learn online?</p>