<p>My oldest son mentioned to me that some colleges now offer some reimbursement of expenses for visits.
Of course he had no further information.
Is anyone aware of this? Is there a site that might list the schools that do this?
I am particularly interested in University of Washington (Seattle). Does anyone know who to request this information from.
... anything you might have would be really helpful. Thanks.</p>
<p>I wonder if he heard about reimbursed invitation-only open houses for highly desirable admits? Many colleges do this to court, for example, URMs and high-end academic admits. </p>
<p>Real travel reimbursement is rarer, but a few colleges do it. He should be able to find the info on the web site of colleges he's interested in.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tlc.edu/admission_visittlc.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.tlc.edu/admission_visittlc.htm</a></p>
<p>My son was in the running for the top scholarship at Denison University. In order to qualify, he had to visit the campus.</p>
<p>I politely asked if Denison would cover air fare and they at first said "no." But, about ten minutes later, someone called and said that they would be glad to send him out on their expense.</p>
<p>I agree with MarathonMan. I believe Denison thought he was "highly desirable" due to his stats and my guess is that they also considered him an URM.</p>
<p>I can understand some privates doing this sometimes but it doesn't seem that a public U would.</p>
<p>A friend of my son's was flown out to the Claremonts--he's not only brilliant, but also URM.</p>
<p>In Jan. 2007, my S called the woman who had visited his private HS campus as part of the HS' college day in Fall 2006. He told her he was coming to visit on campus in February. She told him not to come at that time, rather he should wait and he would be sent an invitation to a potential scholars day (actually 2 days) along with a free airplane ticket (round trip). </p>
<p>He waited and got the ticket, flew out for that weekend and was one of the 10 students that ultimately received one of the very substantial merit-based scholarships.</p>
<p>It happens, but apparently in most instances only to the students that are on the schools "radar." However, it never hurts to ask.</p>
<p>FYI--my S is not URM, if that means anything.</p>
<p>Son was flown to Notre Dame as part of their Reilly Scholars program and stayed in one of the dorms and had all meals and transportation included. His is not a part of any minority group and is not even Catholic or a legacy!</p>
<p>iwave
S was flown (along with a parent) to visit and interview for a specific scholarship at his current University..but it was after applying to the University(and being accepted) and separately applying for the scholarship.
He had another offer to be flown out and interviewed at another U (also after applying and being accepted )but declined as it was after the first visit and his decision to attend that U.
He is not a URM,but did have a GPA at the top of those U's admittance scales and was a NMF with a pretty significant community service background.</p>
<p>A bit off topic, but does the college allow you to change the date of the return flight? (So after visiting that college for a day or two, you would have a few more days to look at other colleges in the area.) Would it be rude to ask since they are paying for the flight?</p>
<p>highliter--</p>
<p>My S stayed a day past the end of the scholarship 2 day get together. I seem to recall that he merely told them that he'd like to have the return on that next day. As a matter of fact I now recall that the college emailed him the contact information for the college's choice of travel agency that he was to use to set up the ticket. So he wasn't dealing with the college at all on the flight dates and time.</p>
<p>He was staying over with a friend that went to the particualr college. I doubt that they would ask "why" you want to extend, but I wouldn't offer the information that it was to visit other schools. That might seem a little nervy.</p>
<p>As a Washington resident, I would say that I'd be surprised to hear that UW was flying anyone in on a reimbursed visit--unless they were a football or basketball standout (and then it would not be UW that was paying but a booster club). But I could be wrong.</p>
<p>U of MN Morris will reimburse travel expenses up to I believe $500.00 if you live over a certain amount of miles away . . . probaby 300 miles . . . another 30 miles and we would have been eligible. Darn!!</p>
<p>U of MN Morris is a small (maybe 2200) undergraduate only LAC and has made a list or two as one of the best public LAC schools in US. Get this . . . they actually REDUCED tuition this year.</p>
<p>UMM is my son's safety school . . . tuition for NMF, approx 1/2 for NM semi, also has other scholarships, free tuition for Native American's.</p>
<p>Does Cornell?</p>
<p>For certain merit scholarship winners</p>
<p>D had expressed early interest in Williams. Had filled out contact info for coaches and admissions. She received an invitation to a Diversity Day, all expenses paid. She emailed them and they called home. I caught the call and explained D was white and to my knowledge the only thing diverse about her was that she lived on a ranch, rode horses , and could use a shotgun. They said "Send her anyway. " LOL. D declined as Williams was one of those pesky SAT Subject Tests schools and D flatly refused to take them, and she didn't feel right taking a space someone else could have used. </p>
<p>Other than that she was offered paid visits to Rhodes for a scholarship weekend (she went) , Scripps for a scholarship weekend (she went), Hendrix offered to reimburse airfare for a scholarship weekend (she went) , and an additional visit to Hamilton she was not able to go on (she had just visted on our dime, or actually frequent flyer miles ;)) .</p>
<p>Details on the campus visit travel reimbursement program at the University of Minnesota-Morris can be found here. It applies to ADMITTED students traveling from at least 350 miles away.</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh offered to fly my d. out - it is 2,500 miles away - before applying. She applied without it.</p>
<p>Amherst offered to fly my older one out for their diversity day - she's white. Following admission, Smith, Williams, Mt. Holyoke, and Bard (I think) offered to fly her out. She only took one up on it.</p>
<p>I think some state schools do fly people out for scholarship interviews (this happened to me beack in the day).</p>
<p>Adding to Mini's regarding Pittsburgh, D got offer for $250 travel expenses plus free hotel room, didn't take them up on it either.</p>