<p>I have an agreement with my D that, if accepted, she can visit a school that's far away and which she has not yet visited in person. Like many schools, they notify kids of acceptance the last week of March.</p>
<p>This makes planning very hard. D's spring break is first week of April, and, of course, if we wait until the last minute, flights will be prohibitively expensive.</p>
<p>When a school knows you hope to visit from afar, would schools be willing to unofficially hint as to whether you are going to be accepted?</p>
<p>I honestly don't mean my reaction to be rude. This just caught my funny bone. </p>
<p>If it's one of the more selective schools, I don't think you'll get a peep or any hint of a hint. If it's a school with a pretty high acceptance rate, there may be no harm in asking.</p>
<p>But everyone would come up with some rationale like this, if schools would pre-release decisions because someone "needs" the information.</p>
<p>What you might do is book a refundable flight now, in case she is accepted. If she's not accepted, you can cancel the flight and get your money back. (Unless you believe that by booking a flight, you'll be jinxing things!)</p>
<p>If you can fly Southwest, you can cancel with full credit to use another time. </p>
<p>JMMom- my reaction was the same as yours. Also not meant to be rude. It got me thinking back to when D was auditioning for music schools and you had to show up and audition with about a week's notice sometimes.</p>
<p>Well, glad I was able to brighten your day with a laugh! :^) Needed with this economic climate, n'est ce pas?</p>
<p>Thanks for the Southwest tip. They don't currently fly out of my airport, but I believe they are supposed to start some routes this spring. I'll look into that.</p>
<p>DD did have that luck with a seven sister school, but our question was to the coach. We asked him to check with admissions and see if it was a likely admit and worth the added expense. He was able to tell us that in Jan/Feb, but that was a sport influenced admit so we had the coach to be our intermediary</p>
<p>EE and EA were my lifesavers. I told D that she had to take advantage of those options to lower our college travel costs. I'm somewhat superstitios and would not count my chickens until they all hatched!</p>
<p>Southwest is definitely the best way to arrange it. You can apply the money to any other flight if you have to cancel. You can change legs. Totally flexible and they still have free baggage. We drive an hour and pass airport that is closer to get to Southwest.</p>
<p>In the meantime, you may want to monitor websites that offer last minute flight deals to see what the frequency of deals is to the location you need to travel to. You could look at sites like site59.com, travelocity.com, etc. Many airliines also offer last minute specials on their own sites that you can subscibe to via email to receive notification of deals. We often fly to Indy via Continental to vist my folks, so I subscribe to their weekly email notification of specials, in case we are able to grab a last miniute flight out there some time.</p>
<p>Maybe try visiting over a weekend instead of during spring break? It's spring semester senior year. Missing a day of school isn't the end of the world, unless she's prepping for 6 AP exams.</p>
<p>if its any consolation, D recently had to fly home here to NY from St Louis twice for a family emergency.She booked one ways on the day before Thanksgiving ( that Wed,she booked it on Tues night) and in early Oct,also one way and at the very last minute. Fares were no more than what she usually pays to fly here.There was also choice of available flights (this was on Southwest). I think traffic is down somewhat so maybe you will luck out when needed in March/April.H just made two business flights in the past two weeks and commented that airports and flights seemed quieter.
Make sure to plan your visits for when the colleges are in session,check their break weeks! If it entails missing a day or two of senior classes, so be it.</p>
<p>Thank you for your inquiry regarding chances of acceptance for the Class of 2013. While we are very impressed with your credentials, and would be very pleased to have you a student, we cannot confirm your acceptance, deferment, or rejection until the applications of all Early Decision applications have been reviewed. Thank you for your interest, and good luck with the remainder of your high school career.</p>
<p>Three of the schools that accepted my daughter invited her to "Accepted students' Day" well before the acceptances came out. Though none of the "Accepted Students' Day" programs were over spring break. The letters came out early just so you could get decent fares on flights.</p>
<p>Try Airfare</a> ? Cheap Airfares ? Cheap Airfare Deals They will email you fares from whichever airport you select. Fares are usually good for the following weekend specials. (the site is called airfarewatchdog.com</p>
<p>In a similar situation, we booked flights using mileage credit. If we had needed to cancel, we could have re-deposited the miles with a $50 fee per ticket.</p>
<p>If you can arrange a flight on Southwest Airlines, there is no charge for cancelling a ticket. It is a bit more to have a fully refundable in cash ticket, but not outrageous. If you would use the credit within 12 months, there is no penalty whatsoever or increased cost.</p>
<p>Let me just throw this one out there - if you need to think that hard about booking a flight for her to visit this school, should she really be going to that school for 4 years. That being said, she will have a month to decide, so you should be able to get a decent fare within that 4 weeks period.</p>