When to start college visit
GW-How early should a student begin visiting college campuses?
when I started my college search it was
my it was my favorite part of the
process and for a couple of reasons it's
something that was completely about me I
said that my visits I research my
colleges I I did everything short of
running the car to drive around and and
so the college visit should really be
something that a student is initiating
and we tend to see the students are
ready to take that step forward and
cross that threshold about the middle of
their junior year right around the
spring break they've they're more than
halfway through Campbell Hall and and
they're thinking ahead to the senior
year they've got a little bit behind
that but they're just ready at that
point to start focusing on the college
process I I believe that when I see
students ninth tenth grade unless
they're visiting because they're on a
family vacation in the area which is
it's pretty common in Washington DC but
the parents are really driving that
process and my fear is that the message
that gets sent to students is that
they're not capable of doing their own
work they're not capable of really
steering the wheel of their own process
and so it's fine to visit a college here
or there ninth and tenth grade I may be
even starting locally to discern whether
the liberal arts is a way that you want
to go or maybe you're looking at a more
selective university setting but to
actually schedule a 10-day college to
our 9th of 10th grade it's just it's not
effective I find
