10th Edition
By G. Gary Ripple, Ph.D.

What Does a Good College Visit Include?

Most importantly, a productive visit depends on your being able to schedule enough time to absorb something of each campus, especially if you are travelling a great distance and going to much time and expense in making the call. The ingredients of a successful visit include the following:

• A personal interview
• A campus tour, including the student center, athletic facilities, library and computer center
• A visit to facilities of special interest, for example, the art museum, dance studio, campus theater, music hall, or science lab
• A visit to at least one class in an academic area of interest
• A conversation with a professor in that area
• At least one meal in a campus dining hall
• An overnight stay in a dormitory
• A thorough study of college information (be sure to pick up admission and financial aid application forms
• A visit to the college bookstore
• Reading a recent copy of the student newspaper
• Plenty of free time to stroll the campus and observe all ongoing activities.

If you can't fit all these elements in, how do you choose?
What if you can't visit a school?
And, how do you prepare for the interviews?
To be sure you make the most informed decision, read Campus Pursuit.

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