Seniors are allowed two college visits during the senior year of high school.  These days will be designated school business.  However, if you need to take more than two days, you may take them, and the absences will be excused.

To make a college visit:

1. Call the college admissions office and schedule your appointment;

2. Notify Mrs. Feemster prior to your visit of the place, date, and time of your visit;

3. While on your visit, get a letter from the college that says you visited on that date and bring the letter to Mrs. Feemster the first day back to school.

Use your school business days wisely; if you know you will need more than two college visits, take the fall visits as an excused absence, and save your school business visits for the spring semester (for semester test exemption).  Or use the long weekend, Thanksgiving break or Christmas break.

Note:  All college visits made after spring break will be marked as excused absences.  If you have not used your school business days by that time, you will lose them.

College visit request

What to do on a College Visit:

1.  Talk with an Admissions Representative; be prepared to ask questions about the admissions process, scholarships, campus activities, college majors, anything you want to know!

2.  Take a walking tour of the campus and get a feel of how it will be to actually attend that college.

3.  Bring your parents with you!  They have questions that you won't think to ask, and together, you will get a lot more important information about the college, residence life, safety issues, cost to attend, etc.

4.  Visit the student center on campus.  Ask current college students what they like most and least about the college.  They will tell you their honest opinion.  Ask what they do when not attending classes, and whether or not they like the town/community in which the college is located.

5.  Visit the residence halls, and not just the apartment-style ones (those are always the most expensive!).  Look at a traditional dormitory and the apartment-style, so you'll know what is available and what you can afford.  

6.  Visit the library, computer labs, and science labs.  You will spend more time in these places than you ever imagined!  

7.  Visit the surrounding town or city.  Look at local businesses, the size and geography of the city, the weather, and the people.  You will not love your college unless you also love the city in which it's located.  Do you prefer a small town, or would you like a bigger city atmosphere?

8.  Sit in on a class, in the major you think you are going to pursue.  After class, ask some of the college students what they like about it, why they chose that major, is that class typical of others, or is it different?

9.  Visit with a college professor or dean of the major you are thinking of pursuing.  They will be very helpful to you, getting adjusted to college as a freshman, getting departmental scholarships, and later, helping you get a job after you graduate.

You may not be able to do all these things on EVERY college visit, but certainly make it a point to do most of them, especially on those college campuses that interest you the most.