<p>Particularly, I am trying to figure out logistics. If a school posts that it's revisit days are April 7 & 8, is a student expected to attend both days or just one. Should we plan to arrive the night before and spend the whole day and into the following evening?</p>
<p>We live on the West Coast, so the timing can be a challenge - it takes all day to get to the East Coast and many of the schools are a 1-2 hour drive from the nearest airport, so it does become a marathon event! Add to that the fact that there are few good lodging options in some of these small towns, so advance planning is necessary.</p>
<p>As a precaution, I'd like to book some hotel rooms now and follow up later with flights when we know if our child has been accepted. I found the Deerfield revisit dates on their calendar and then booked a room at the Deerfield Inn (which I can cancel if my child is not accepted). Lawrenceville has also posted revisit dates on the website, but I can't find anything for Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>Although I can’t speak for those schools, Andover has multiple revisit days, where you’re permitted but not required to go to one. I’d imagine the same would be true of other schools, but others could hopefully confirm or deny this.</p>
<p>Good-from my experience, you only need to visit one day, they are leaving you some “wiggle” room. It is difficult to plan out but most schools have multiple days and little overlay, I think due to the fact that many kids are applying to similar schools.</p>
<p>At Deerfield, there were 2 days for revisit, but it was clear that we could come ANYTIME/ANY day in the spring. I admit I wanted to go on the official day to be involved in the total experience, and we were. (DA had wonderful, program that only impressed me and my daughter more).</p>
<p>Also, since I am a teacher, the revisit days worked with my spring break so we were lucky. </p>
<p>At the point at which you are offered a spot, they want you, and will find a way to make it work for you. We did one “revisit” because we didnt visit and I thought we should, the 2nd revisit was my d’s first choice, and the 3rd revisit, we had set up but canceled when my d was at her 1st choice.</p>
<p>AlexzMom - thanks for that information - I expected that was the case, but just wanted to make sure. Our spring break is a bit late this year as it coincides with Easter, so far none of the revisit days are during our spring break! The L’ville revisit days are the two days before my child’s 8th grade class leaves for their Washington DC trip - so there may be a way to tack the revisit to the front end of that trip - if accepted, of course!</p>
<p>Usually a school posts 2 days for revisit days just for scheduling purposes like Alexz825Mom said. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you can only attend one of the two days just because the number of kids that revisit and also the schedules for the days are the same, but you can always ask the school if you can attend both.</p>
<p>Basically what you do on a revisit day is your child will be assigned to a student. At Lawrenceville, your child is usually assigned to a sophomore if he or she is going into 9th grade. In the morning there will be registration and a welcoming meeting, procedural stuff like that. Your child will basically go through a regular day at Lawrenceville following the Lawrentian around; going to class, going to meals, hanging out during free periods. I think they are welcomed to stay and watch athletic practices/games as well.</p>
<p>Every kid’s experience will be slightly different depending on the student he or she is assigned to. The classes they go to will vary, some will have free periods while others will not, some kids take their revisit day kid out for lunch while others will eat at the dining center.</p>
<p>You can definitely contact the school for a specific schedule for revisit day once admitted.
Hope that helped. Good luck.</p>
<p>Ditto. Because they know some students are revisiting more than one school. My husband went with my daughter because he helped her narrow her choices but had seen none of the schools in person (I took her on the wild weekend interview circuit - 5 schools in a long weekend).</p>
<p>Revisit days were more relaxed, but he did two schools in a single weekend and drove by the third and was thrilled to have the opportunity to compare the choices and see the campus back to back.</p>
<p>So multiple allows you to fit in more than one school.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the great feedback everyone! Hopefully, revisit days are in our future. My child finished and submitted the last of the applications today! Whew, one more thing off the list. Now it’s just the waiting!</p>
<p>Revisit days are sometimes not posted by the schools until after the admissions decisions are done. Often they’re mailed to the students/parents. Some also post them on non-public parts of their websites and send a link.</p>
<p>Why? To prevent those on the waitlist, or others, from showing up those days.</p>
<p>Some schools offer overnight opportunities for students to sleep in the dorms and attend an enrolled student’s schedule the next day. If your applicant has this opportunity, I strongly suggest signing up. Revisit days are highly structured and programmed to show the school in the best light possible, for obvious reasons. Overnight stays are about as real as it gets.</p>
<p>Yep - all day. We had a balancing act trying to coordinate air and hotel arrangements for two back-to-back visits that occurred at schools in two different states. If we had not had a rental car we would have flown my D and hubby into Hartford and out of Boston. Dropping off the car at a different airport was prohibitive. Instead we flew them into Boston, had them drive to Connecticut that afternoon, do the 1st school, then drive back to Boston for the final school with time to do a self tour of the third where she was waitlisted so they’d be within an hour of the airport.</p>
<p>Many schools have revisit days posted on their website either under the Admissions sections or on the school calendar. So far, the schools we are interested in, are planning revisit days for the week of April 4-8.</p>
<p>Wow, Exie, sounds tight. I wonder if it makes sense to fly & just rent cars in different cities, depending on what those cities end up being. Good thing there is nearly a month between acceptance & revisit for parents to figure all this out. </p>
<p>Is it difficult to make up the missed school & assignments, or do many schools make April 4-8 kind of quiet? I suppose at a lot of schools, there aren’t enough soon-to-be graduates applying to BS to allow for this kind of accommodation.</p>
<p>Our daughter’s school was accommodating because her teachers finally understood the stakes once she was accepted. And we didn’t give them much choice. So we notified them in advance, she was allowed to make up the work when she returned. We were lucky, they were drilling for state exams so school was pretty much a waste of time anyway.</p>
<p>On the travel - depends. My hubby didn’t find the revisit drive difficult (he’s nuts that way). Most of the schools are close enough that you’re not looking at more than 3-4 hours at the most. Fly in the night before school #1, visit during the day - you’ll be done between 2 and 4 depending on the school, drive to the next town, spend the night there so you can be fresh in the morning, stir and repeat if you have more than 2. </p>
<p>Now - if the difference is SPS and Lawrenceville, ummm - that takes a bit of thinking (or combination of plane, train, and/or car).</p>
<p>I would say, though - if you have lots of choices, narrow down to the favorite two (or three) and pray a lot for a good gps and kind airline schedules. The cool thing about current airline structures is that it’s a bit easier to get one way fares (unlike the old days -where one ways were more expensive than roundtrips. We’re a southwest airlines city so thank the universe they go to both Boston (easy terminal to get in and out of) and Hartford :-)</p>
<p>Our daughter shadowed a student. She went to classes, ate in the cafeteria, hung out at the dorm, met other students, went to a reception. Her father attended classes, took a tour, talked to other parents.</p>
<p>Where will parents sit, around the harkness table too? Do they have to sit through the whole class or they can hop around without being too disruptive?</p>
<p>Southwest also flies into Manchester and Providence - two great regional airports that are a lot easier to navigate than Boston Logan. We LUV Southwest. :)</p>