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It's not practical at all. But it's not impossible. It's just being relentlessly resourceful as PG explained last week. As an officer you're on duty a few da
by brandnewlow 18y ago
It's not practical at all. But it's not impossible.
It's just being relentlessly resourceful as PG explained last week.
As an officer you're on duty a few days a week. This means you greet the visiting families. It also means you troubleshoot any weird things that happen in the waiting room.
Probably once a month you'd have a kid who hitchhiked across country to come visit and who would ask about where he could stay nearby. Or kids who would cut school to make it there for a visit.
Also, if a family's hiring outside help with the admissions process, then they've already blocked out time to go visit colleges.
I only visited Princeton after I was admitted. I applied blind. My father had almost had a chance to teach there while he was in the army and had always thought highly of the place. I applied to all the big Midwestern colleges and we thought, what the heck, let's apply to one of these fancy Ivies.
It's kind of a classic story of a dream deferred.
- time_management 18y agoI only visited Princeton after I was admitted. I applied blind. When did you apply? It must have been in the '80s or '90s, because these days it's pretty much impossible to get into the Ivies without a campus visit on record (or two, preferably). The assumption is that anyone who hasn't done a visit or do doesn't have enough enthusiasm to attend.
- brandnewlow 18y ago2000. Graduated in '04. Worked in admissions from 04-06.
- time_management 18y agoYou must have been a very impressive applicant to have gotten into Princeton without a campus visit in 2000.
- brandnewlow 18y agoI was a strong applicant from a random place in Michigan. Someone in the office must have taken a liking to something I wrote and pushed me into the admit pile. It's not possible to take credit for that.
- tokenadult 18y agothese days it's pretty much impossible to get into the Ivies without a campus visit on record (or two, preferably). I doubt that completely, as I know plenty of counterexamples. The eight colleges in the Ivy League http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League mostly don't have any policy at all of tracking student interest when making admission decisions. All eight of those colleges know that they will get a good yield out of the smallish number of students that they admit.
- brandnewlow 18y agoWe did not track visits. We still recommended them though. A lot of kids would either get fired up once they came to visit, or they'd realize they didn't want to go there. Either way, they had better info.
- menloparkbum 18y agoI'll chime in with counterexamples also; I have an ex-girlfriend and a number of cousins who got into multiple ivies (and Stanford) prior to campus visits.