Campus Visits & Interviews

CAMPUS VISITS Campus Visits & Interviews Overview Before the campus visit Scheduling your campus visits and interviews Scheduling other on-campus activities Typical itinerary for campus visits Preparing for your visit What to bring on your campus visit Campus guided tour What to see and do during free time on your campus visit Campus facilities not to miss After your campus visits - What to do when you get home

Scheduling Other On-Campus Activities

See if there are information sessions scheduled for that day and plan to attend.

If you’re interested, see if you can sit in on a class in your major.

If you have a great interest (or great need) for financial aid, you may want to schedule an interview with a financial aid officer.  If this is the case, you should meet with a financial aid officer and discuss the college’s financial aid policies and opportunities.  Let the financial aid officer know you’re interested in campus-based scholarships and work-study jobs in which the college has full decision capability for incoming freshmen students.  Keep in contact with the financial aid officer over the next year and make sure the officer knows about any special circumstance that affects your family’s financial situation (loss of a job or medical bills from a serious family illness).

If you’re interested in spending the night in a campus dorm with a current student, ask about the possibility of doing so.  However, we recommend you wait until you’re accepted to a college before spending overnight in the student dorm.

Write down your itinerary for each college you will visit. See the example itinerary Campus Visit Itinerary for a formal campus visit.

Make travel arrangements.  This includes making airline reservations if needed, making hotel and rental car reservations, getting driving directions to each college and university you’re going to visit, and working out your schedule if you’re visiting more than one college during your trip.