<p>I'm visiting a college in Rhode Island an it's 5 and a half hours from where I live. So I'm hoping this will actually show the college I am serious about attending. Or is it just a visit and nothing more to them?</p>
<p>No. On most school sites you’ll actually see that attending an information session/tour will not increase your chances at admission.</p>
<p>If you can though, I would recommend it for several reasons. As transfers we need substantive reason(s) to transfer and why school X offers what we want. Attending a session can assist you in making that connection as opposed to someone who never visited the campus. On the other hand, you might arrive and find out that the school isn’t for you.</p>
<p>Many schools (all the ones I looked at) said that visiting increased your chances greatly. The more often you visited, in their eyes, the more dedicated you were to the school and the more serious you were about attending if accepted. The best way to tell is that if the school asks for information to sign up for an info session/ tour (name, hometown, previous school) they are likely tracking how many times you came. If you can just walk in then they’re not and don’t care.</p>
<p>it’s an information session for transfer students and yes I had to sign up for it, i don’t see where you see on a school’s website that it says visiting has no impact, maybe it’s just this school.</p>
<p>I guess I should of stated it depends on the school. A smaller school is more likely going to take notice as opposed to a larger school. Take Harvard, Yale, etc. I really don’t think they care if you visited the campus 10 times or once. </p>
<p>This past fall I visited Columbia and NYU. I had to register to attend both. I recall NYU specifically asked about my grade level (freshman, transfer student), etc. In return I was supposed to be placed on a mailing list. So far I have yet to receive anything regarding admissions. The school receives around 35,000 applications a year that I don’t think if I visited the campus 20 times it would make a difference.</p>
<p>As I said above, if the school is a smaller more tight knit community then I can see it helping. I remember seeing it once on a few school sites. I have to look. But the reason for not increasing the chances of admission is not everyone can attend information/ campus sessions and as you know this would create certain issues. </p>
<p>Like I said, it’s better if you take the trip focusing on the campus and seeing if the school is the right fit as opposed to increasing your chances. By the way what school is it if you don’t mind? URI? Providence? Brown? Bryant? Salve Regina?</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with Mitch and IMO I think visiting a school will only seriously increase your chance of getting in the waitlist (of coz only in the case that you don’t get accepted rightaway) The waitlist are people who are super serious about attending. I remember 3 guys in my club who applied to the same school, one of them visited that school a few times and the other two didn’t. That visitor guy eventually got waitlisted despite having slightly lower stats.</p>
<p>Yea it’s Bryant University</p>