<p>The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) has posted its spring 2009 schedule of National College Fair events. </p>
<p>Spring</a> 2009 National College Fairs Schedule </p>
<p>College fairs offer students (and parents) a chance to meet a lot of admission officers from a lot of different colleges. They usually include specialized workshops on such topics as financial aid and selective college admission. </p>
<p>I'll try to post to this thread, as the information comes in, links to college schedules of regional information sessions or high school visits conducted individually or jointly by colleges. If you hear of any such meetings, please post the news here, and after we attend various meetings, it would be much appreciated to post visit reports to this thread. </p>
<p>Best wishes to all of you students who are looking for colleges to apply to next year, the year after, or farther into the future.</p>
<p>Here is a link to the 2009 Colleges That Change Lives tour....adding a bunch of cities this year...</p>
<p>CTCL</a> Programs & Information | Colleges That Change Lives</p>
<p>Is anything similar done for students living outside of the USA...any college fairs in India ???</p>
<p>^ Some colleges will list meetings in foreign countries on their websites. Those lists will be updated in the next month or so, and I will try to post links, and I will welcome links posted as replies by other readers here.</p>
<p>Yay! Finally someone (CTCL) realizes there are good students in the southwest!</p>
<p>csleslie51 -- that's great! I would love to take S to a CTCL presentation, but we won't spend the money to fly to one, which is what it would take. If you go, let us know what you think!</p>
<p>I'd like advice please! My child is a homeschooled 7th grader, currently taking online high school courses and a community college class. He has taken the ACT (98th percentile) and the SAT (91st percentile M + R, ) and is planning to go into science or engineering. He is young and his voice hasn't changed- he still looks like a little guy. I'm really not sure how to make the most of the college fair experience. What advice do you have for first timers? </p>
<p>thank you so much!</p>
<p>Newbies (first-time, very young students) are very welcome at college fairs. I was surprised how seriously my oldest son was treated at sixth grade age when he was tagging along with me some years ago at the Minnesota National College Fair while I researched colleges for a website I keep. The college admission officers and the alumni in the booths showed him polite interest and engaged him in conversation whenever he wanted to speak up, or left him alone if he just wanted to look around.</p>
<p>^ Agree with tokenadult. The purpose of college fairs is to allow the colleges to publicize themselves and what they have to offer. They don't mind giving out literature and taking the time to answer your questions even if the college application is several years down the road. It's an investment in their future, and once they're there the marginal cost to them of talking to you is approximately zero. I would caution that you may not get much time with the colleges that are most popular among HS students in your local market. But there will be representatives of many other colleges, including some excellent schools that are not as well-known or popular in your area, just sitting there hoping for someone to stop by and talk to them. They'll be happy to see you. And just that much attention might help them drum up some additional interest as they won't look like wallflowers at the party. On your end, the sooner you begin picking up information on specific colleges, the easier this process will be down the road.</p>
<p>Some colleges or groups of colleges have posted, or will soon post, their spring travel schedules. </p>
<p>Exploring College Options Consortium (Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Penn, Stanford) </p>
<p>Exploring</a> College Options </p>
<p>Exploring Educational Excellence Consortium (Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Rice) </p>
<p>Exploring</a> Educational Excellence </p>
<p>Eight of the Best Colleges Consortium </p>
<p>(Claremont McKenna College, Colorado College, Connecticut College, Grinnell College, Haverford College, Kenyon College, Macalester College, Sarah Lawrence College) </p>
<p>Eight</a> of the Best, One The Road, Admission, Claremont McKenna College </p>
<p>Lutherancolleges.org </p>
<p>Map</a> & Schedule </p>
<p>Claremont Colleges </p>
<p>Claremont</a> Colleges Receptions, One The Road, Admission, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont McKenna College </p>
<p>Davidson College </p>
<p>Davidson</a> in Your Area </p>
<p>Indiana University </p>
<p><a href="https://www.indiana.edu/%7Eiuadmit/events/index.php%5B/url%5D">https://www.indiana.edu/~iuadmit/events/index.php</a> </p>
<p>Linfield College </p>
<p>Campus</a> Visit: Fairs and Visits </p>
<p>Penn State </p>
<p>Penn</a> State Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. We'll see how it goes. What are some good ice breaker questions for admissions officers? I know we want to avoid asking stuff that is very basic and can be easily found on the college website. </p>
<p>Also, will the schools make any sort of note of my child's interest? Do they start files on kids this young? </p>
<p>tia!</p>
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<p>That varies among different colleges. Some will keep a file at least to know whom to send mailings to, others will disregard a conversation but might regard the student filling out a contact card.</p>
<p>Interesting, I never attending a national college fair. But my high school teamed up with some in the area to host a twice annual one.</p>
<p>No major college like Harvard or Yale, but quite a few. And representatives from all UCs (I live in California).</p>
<p>Yale has now posted schedules </p>
<p>Yale</a> Events Near You </p>
<p>for international information sessions.</p>
<p>Georgetown has now posted its spring travel schedule </p>
<p>Georgetown</a> University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions </p>
<p>which includes Exploring College Options joint programs and its own international programs.</p>
<p>The Exploring College Options (Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Penn, Stanford) </p>
<p>Exploring</a> College Options </p>
<p>joint travel schedule for spring 2009 is posted now.</p>
<p>The Exploring Educational Excellence consortium of colleges (Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, and Rice) has scheduled its spring 2009 visits </p>
<p>Exploring</a> Educational Excellence-Information Sessions </p>
<p>and you can sign up on the website. I'd love to hear your impressions of the meetings. I will attend my local meeting at the end of April, about a month before the Duke-Georgetown-Harvard-Penn-Stanford meetings come to my town. Let's compare notes. One thing I always wonder about is whether or not the same story is told by each college in different cities.</p>
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<p>has anyone been to one of those meetings where college reps come to your hometown and talk about the school? i'm considering going to one for Harvard, Duke, Stanford, UPenn, and Georgetown [it's called exploring college options, i think]. But it's kind of far from my house and i don't want to waste my time driving there and back if i can get the information just as easily online.</p>
<p>has anyone been to one and found it helpful? thanks</p>