<p>Great idea to post these events here. My s and I went to several regional information sessions when he was a junior and found them to be very helpful. Some reps brought videos/slides with them while others did not. It got him thinking about what to look for in colleges. I liked the format much better than a college fair. More informative, not as noisy, and less crowds jockeying for position in front of their presentation table.</p>
<p>Thanks for the report about what attending those sessions did for your family.</p>
<p>The Exploring Educational Excellence consortium of Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Rice University has announced its spring 2008 travel schedule. </p>
<p>Exploring</a> Educational Excellence </p>
<p>The R.S.V.P. links on the site under </p>
<p>Exploring</a> Educational Excellence-Information Sessions </p>
<p>don't appear to be working yet, but they should be soon.</p>
<p>Rice University's visit schedule is up </p>
<p>Rice</a> University | Prospective Students </p>
<p>with more details promised soon.</p>
<p>Brown University has put up its schedule. Most meetings are joint meetings with Yale and MIT. </p>
<p>My son received a postcard today inviting him to a meeting called An Evening with Lawrence from Lawrence University. He is not in the market for liberal arts colleges in Wisconsin, but I'll post here the webpage </p>
<p>Lawrence</a> Admissions - Find Events Near You </p>
<p>where you can find other Lawrence events. If you see a postcard in your mail inviting you to a local college information session, could you kindly post that news to this thread, as a clue that there may be other meetings of that kind in other parts of the country? I'll try to search websites, as I searched Lawrence's site, to find the general links with the overall national schedule.</p>
<p>Just saw this. D2 is attending a local MN college fair as we speak (write??)...100 colleges/unis represented at a local HS (Eastview) in the Twin Cities. Goes to 7:00 this evening and Wisconsin, Iowa, South and North Dakota,Michigan and Service Academies are listed as attending. Hope it helps!;)</p>
<p>Yep, that's the MACAC fair. I visited it on the first evening, when it was at Minnetonka High School.</p>
<p>D2 liked meeting the school reps at the fair. Also liked teasing me and trying to make me feel guilty as she said most kids were with their parents...and of course she was on her own. My guilt has no bounds!;) Do most of you attend with your kids?</p>
<p>My oldest son was busy that evening that MACAC was in our end of town, so I attended WITHOUT him, while I dropped off another son at a soccer practice. Typically, now that my oldest son is older, we both go into a college fair and "divide and conquer" by going to different booths at the same time, meeting up for any general information sessions scheduled there.</p>
<p>I have a question about the NACAC College Fair. The fair in my State is from 9:am-12pm then from 6pm-9pm. Does that mean you only have a 3 hour window of opportunity to chat with reps? What happens at these fairs between say 12pm and 6pm?</p>
<p>Usually the representatives rest, eat meals, and get to know one another during the breaks between public sessions at college fairs. After talking to hundreds of students and some number of parents for a few hours, a lot of people need a break. In a few cases, the representatives may be having meetings with school counselors or other kinds of school meetings while in town and not at a public college fair general session.</p>
<p>Drexel has events listed. </p>
<p>Drexel</a> University | Events | Admissions Events</p>
<p>So does Clark. </p>
<p>Clark</a> University | Admissions | Clark on the Road - Information Sessions</p>
<p>tokenadult--Thank you for all the links andinformation on college visits!</p>
<p>Cornell's info session list for spring 2008 is up. </p>
<p>Harvard's sessions are now posted. </p>
<p>Harvard</a> College Admissions Office: Harvard in Your Hometown</p>
<p>Last year a "hot" question to ask at spring information sessions of various colleges is how the college treats applications submitted with more than one set of test scores. Does the college "superscore," or does it take the best single-sitting test score, or do something else? </p>
<p>This year one hot question seems to be whether a college cares or not about where else you are applying. What is the implication of NOT saying where else you are applying? What is the implication of saying, and mentioning more selective colleges (or less selective colleges) as part of your list? </p>
<p>Another hot question this year is whether it really makes a difference how a student self-identifies as to ethnic category when applying to college, and whether it is possible to totally leave off information about ethnic category without consequence for admission. </p>
<p>Those are some questions I'm seeing coming up in quite a few threads. What hot questions do you see this year on CC that would be good to ask college admission officers at regional information sessions?</p>
<p>One question to ask at admission information sessions might be the frequently asked question, does it look bad to self-report "low" AP test scores (say a score of 3, 2, or 1)? My guess is that self-reporting any AP test score looks better than not taking the test at all, but this is something we could all ask about.</p>
<p>3 hours is a LONG time, believe me</p>
<p>my D walks around and looks at the states schools are from</p>
<p>Columbia University has posted its schedule of spring 2008 meetings. </p>
<p>Columbia</a> University Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Introductions to Columbia </p>
<p>Most of the Columbia events are joint events with its Exploring College Excellence travel partners.</p>