Maximizing College Visits
Many families are not knowledgeable as to where to start the college planning search process with their children. We present this list as a general starting point.
Maximizing college visits:
College Planning Services offers you unlimited consultations to help you develop your customized plan.
Many families are not knowledgeable as to where to start the college planning search process with their children. We present this list as a general starting point.
Maximizing college visits:
- Have a campus map
- Develop a rating scale- to measure one school to another
- Talk to an alumnus before you visit a campus
- Speak with a department head (send a thank you note when you get home)
- Dress appropriately
- Ask for directions—frequently
- Scan the school newspaper
- Check the bulletin boards around campus
- Eat in the cafeteria
- Look for signs of crime prevention
- Make sure you get the interviewer’s name and send him/her a thank- you note
- Bring a steno pad or small note book to each college interview
- Keep a journal
- Enter each interview with a goal
- Avoid one word answers if interviewed by admissions
College Planning Services offers you unlimited consultations to help you develop your customized plan.