When you visit a college to they add you to some sort of database?
<p>Some schools keep track of your visits and communication. Others don't.</p>
<p>You are usually asked to fill out an information card so they can add you to their mailing lists. This only happens at official sessions and tours, though you may be able to ask for the form at the admissions office. Or you can enter mailing lists online through each school's website.</p>
<p>some colleges do; Columbia does, for example. And schools that are worried about their yield (Tufts, WUSTL) etc definitely look for demonstrated interest like visiting. But some like Stanford and Harvard say right on their web page that they don't track these things; they know that if they admit you that you'll give them serious thought.</p>
<p>Well I've visited a school like Tufts, but I didn't go on the "conventional" tour, with a guide and everything. My friend who's a junior showed my father and I around. I mean, in that case, I wouldn't be recorded in the colleges database, right?</p>
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My friend who's a junior showed my father and I around. I mean, in that case, I wouldn't be recorded in the colleges database, right?
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yeah, that's not helpful as far as the adcoms are concerned. You should have dropped by the admission office and signed up on their list.</p>
<p>Right, so if I say I visited, would they discredit me?</p>
<p>does anyone know whether princeton, johns hopkins, and upenn keep track of these things?</p>