As the title says hopefully this can be a one stop place for folks to check what school have cancelled the admitted student days or preview days. Feel free to list them in this thread.
@rivet2020 stated that Stanford has cancelled their student day and I read some where else on the board UPenn has cancelled Quaker day.
Brown
Columbia
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
UPenn
More to follow, I’m sure
Safe to assume if they cancel admitted student days that they’d also cancel general campus tours for prospective students? We are confirmed at Miami, UCF, UF and ASU the first week of April. DS21 says he wants to go no matter what but, if these schools do cancel their tours, I don’t think it would make much sense to go anyway. I guess he thinks he can still get a general sense of the school even walking around a deserted campus. Thoughts?
Brown
Columbia
Harvard
LMU
MIT
Stanford
UPenn
Cornell has cancelled visits & tours
My thought…yes, you can get a feel for the campus by walking around and doing a self guided tour yourself. The only thing you will miss is that you won’t be able to gain access to the insides of some buildings…because you won’t have key card access to do so.
I agree, especially if classes are still in session.
My D and her dad are going out to UF and FSU the second week of April for admitted student days. At this point, even if they are cancelled, I think they may go out anyway and do self guided tours, but we will see. FSU is a personalized one on one tour for honors students, so I’m hoping that is not cancelled, at least. It’s not the typical “big crowd” event or tour , so fingers crossed. We will see. Your son is a junior, though. Any chance you could postpone visits until summer (I know the heat is brutal in the summer, but maybe it would be a better time)?
Vanderbilt canceled the Mosaic weekend.
DS has already done accepted S’s day at UMass, and is scheduled for URI at the end of this month, as well as Rutgers and CofC in April. Since we have non- refundable tickets and have never been to Charleston, we will go regardless of whether it’s cancelled and do what we can to get a sense of the school and area. We’ve already been to the other 2, so that may have to be it.
Rutgers is a tricky school to tour yourself, I really do not know another school setup like it, it is really like 4separate campus.
I took my daughter to see some schools over the summer but it is far from ideal with a tiny fraction of the students there, you really do not get a feel for it.
Fortunately we’ve been there twice, once on the official tour. DS will be disappointed if the official accepted student event is cancelled, because he really wanted to focus on the business school to make his decision. Hopefully it won’t be cancelled, but he has enough of a sense to make a decision if we don’t go back in April.
Edited to add that as far as we know, Rutgers has not cancelled as of this point.
No option for a summer visit for us. DS21 got invited to MIT football camp 
and between that, summer practice for his football team, and a 2-3 week trip to the East Coast to visit his dad, and continuing to work at his internship, his summer is booked solid.
I am hoping it stays booked. If this thing gets really bad, I could envision football camp being canceled, and maybe even the airlines shutting down? I know that some people would accuse me of blowing things out of proportion but I consider myself a pragmatist. Looking at the data we have right now from egregiously limited testing, it sure seems to me that the transmission rate is really, really high. And if the early information about the virus mutating and re-infecting people proves to be correct (again, not trying to be cray cray here but as a biology major in college I learned enough to know that viruses certainly do mutate/evolve - look at influenza as a case in point) then who knows what the world looks like in six months?
If anyone updates this thread, could they comment on exactly what is cancelled - if it’s specifically Admitted Student Days or all tours? Thanks! We have plans to visit Wake Forest, Davidson, and Richmond during the last week of March. So far, they haven’t cancelled tours.
@elena13 Bummer about Vandy’s Mosiac!
To those planning to visit campuses even though tours or Admitted Students Days are cancelled: please don’t!
Colleges are cancelling these events because they do not want visitors on campus because it is risky to have us there. It’s risky for students with pre-existing conditions, older faculty members, and the families of all of those folks. It’s also risky for us to be there because college campuses are a Petri dish of germs and will almost definitely be a breeding ground for COVID-19 after everyone comes back from spring break.
Yale cancelled our campus tour and info session for early April. If you go to the Yale undergraduate admissions webpage it says that tours are cancelled and “Prospective students and families are discouraged from traveling to campus at this time.”
Finally, consider that if by chance you end up with COVID-19 within two weeks after visiting a campus and have visited one or several college campuses, all of them will be informed of your visit and possibility that you have infected others on the campus. I imagine that might hurt an applicant’s admission chance, especially if the campus explicitly asked that visitors not come.
Cornell cancelled all visits, tours and events with outside visitors with over 100 attendees until April 15, but they did not specify if this includes admitted students weekend (“Cornell Days”). The dates for that had not been announced yet. I wonder if they are considering pushing it out or cancelling it altogether.
I think both Cornell and Yale are trying to push out the decision as late as possible. Yale’s Bulldog Days are a much-loved tradition. Student tour guides were just informed of the immediate cancellation of tours this morning, and I think Cornell’s cancellation just hit their website yesterday. I will be surprised if either one ends up hosting their accepted student days. Yale started their two week break yesterday. The parent rumor mill thinks we will hear something by this Friday regarding distance learning, but that is just speculation.
Oddly, Cornell Concert Commission just announced a March 22nd show the night before last; I am guessing that will be pulled soon.
While I doubt it I wonder if schools will move decision day back to give them more time to do a acceptance student day. I am sure that would cause more harm than good considering the number of kids / schools needed to go along with it. If th evil’s moved their deadline to say June 1 that may allow time for admitted students to have a day on campus but you would run into finals/ graduation. It will be interesting to see what happens with college graduations this spring.