Planning College Visits As We Return To “Normal”. See how to plan before colleges start welcoming visitors back to campus. Great bonus tips available for both patents and teenagers!
There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel
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Blog: College Search
Parents and College Tours with Teens
Experience from Over 150 US College Tours
Janice and I have probably been on 150 plus US college tours over the past 10 years. Some with our children when they were doing the college visit circuit, others as a college counselor checking out schools we think our clients would be interested in attending. Other than the campus visits that were specifically for college counselors, there were always teens and parents around for us to observe.
Virtual College Visits as a Service: Announcement Update
Over the past 15 months Custom Colleges Visits has created virtual visit itineraries for a number of families both domestic and from overseas.
If you and your teen are undecided about visiting campuses in person, a virtual visit with one-on-one appointments (professors, students, etc) is a good alternative with the proper guidance.
Coronavirus Blog: Week Seven 08 May
WELCOME TO WEEK SEVEN OF THE CORONAVIRUS BLOG! Welcome to Week Seven of the Coronavirus Blog! Thank you to everyone who read the blog last week! As...
CORONAVIRUS BLOG: WEEK EIGHT 19 MAY
It has been eight weeks since we first started our Coronavirus Blog, posting college-related news and updates, and stories about college students...
Parent / Teen On-Campus College Visits
As you embark on a parent-teen college tour you may want to keep the following suggestions in mind:
Keep a positive attitude
Advice For Parents of College Bound Students
Are you a parent of a college-bound teen?
Do you feel left in the dark about the college search process?
You’re not alone
Visit colleges so showing up at move in isn’t a shock
Planning college visits in advance can and will play an important role in insuring things go smoothly when visiting campus or when starting at your chosen school.
Letting Go: A Perennial Favorite of Parents
“For parents, the freedom freshmen enjoy can be hard to accept. So can recognizing how little you can now appropriately and directly do to shape the daily round of your sons or daughters experiences or his or her life style choices, curricular, or career plansA young person is setting out on his or her own lives course. Don’t try to hold the course you set and have been sailing together for seventeen years. It is very hard to sail a ship with two pilots. Come along, by all means. But keep in mind that is a new voyage, someone else’s voyage. This way college can be the shared and happy embarkation it ought to be.”
