Schools that pay for you to visit

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<p>athenegoddess, I was on the trip with your friend.</p>

<p>I remember the dorm host that dressed in drag, though I thought he was hosting a male, though I might of been mistaken.</p>

<p>In order to be 'accepted' for the free visit one did have to submit the first half of the common application. This was after Reed sent out offers to apply.</p>

<p>I will also add that actually visiting a school and staying overnight with other students is the most beneficial experience I have had in my college process. Whereas merely visiting with a tour and info session is almost worthless form my experience.</p>

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<p>Fordham offers to reimburse accepted students to visit for Accepted Student Days. Amount is determined by distance traveled. The offer for reimbursement was in the invitation which went out to accepted students.</p>

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<p>I also think certain schools want to find students who would succeed in a professional track at their school.</p>

<p>I know of a girl who performed exceptionally well in DECA and FBLA and was paid to visit Yale, Harvard, UPenn, etc. Presumably because they thought her an asset to certain programs at their school (Warton).</p>

<p>It seems like relatively wealthy schools who aggressively search for a) high yield or b) various forms of diversity (racial, socio-economic, major) are willing to go the extra mile to perfect their stats. Of course, this isn't just a numbers game--I'm willing to bet that a lot of colleges, even large unis, are pretty impressed with certain students as successful people and not just statistics.</p>

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<p>Duke flies out the people who they give likely letters to for an all expense paid trip in April. I'm stoked about that. My friend said that they pay for fancy dinners and throw a lot of parties for us. I do not think the Ivies pay unless you cannot afford the trip or for special circumstances.</p>

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<p>There are a bunch of schools that will fly out minorities or low income.</p>

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<p>I've heard of Williams, Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Amherst doing that.</p>

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<p>Whitman, Girnnell, and also Wesleyan do it, but that is for minorities.</p>

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<p>Yeah, Williams definitely does...they offer it to accepted students, but they don't have to be minorities (I'm not...)</p>

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<p>I agree with trackdude. Rice U. paid for my sons flight, room & meals after he applied to 'check out the school' (along with other kids). There is a chance he may be accepted but it hasn't been confirmed.</p>

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<p>Meugenio haha no way! she's a really small mexican-irish girl. super sweet and always carries a camera.</p>

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<p>I got to go to Notre Dame and Rochester, so they have programs</p>

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<p>WashU is paying me to visit the campus in April for Multicultural Weekend. They notified me of an early acceptance and then invited me.</p>

<p>All expenses paid! Airfare, food, and housing accomodations are provided. :)</p>

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<p>carleton pays for everything, I think it had to do with the fact that they wanted more minorities from california.</p>

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<p>Carleton will also pay half the cost (up to $200) for NMF students to travel to accepted student days.</p>

<p>Hamilton has a special fund for travel expenses for students from Texas, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.</p>

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<p>MIT pays (without you even asking for it) if you are financially eligible,
from listening to others looks like Stanford does this too automatically,
Caltech has not offered to pay yet- So it looks like one has to make
the request(?), Duke pays (if you are a "likely" invitee irrespective of
financial circumstances).</p>

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