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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 and other members of college communities across the U.S—how some have been making direct contributions to the fight...
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.”
Planning College Visits – A Helpful Website
Parents of college-bound students overwhelmed with the process of planning multi-day, multi-campus college visits will be pleased to learn about Custom College Visits’ website. Chock full of information on planning college tours for your teen, the site also provides information on the company’s four core services:
Itinerary and logistics planning
Development of prospective college lists
Travel arrangements
And on-campus arrangements
Visiting College Campuses Help Students Answer Essay Prompts
Visiting College Campuses Help Students Answer Essay Prompts Writing a College Essay Helped by College Visit Remembrances As students begin the daunting task (for some) of writing tightly worded, critically important essay for each college’s prompts one can almost...
How to do College Visits by Private Jets
There has been much written lately about the 1% using private jets to visit three to four colleges in a day with their teen. No matter how you travel make sure you allow yourself enough time on each campus to fully experience the academics, lifestyle and the people.
Turning a College Tour Trip into a Vacation
Janice Caine interviewed in College Covered article
Check out this article in College Covered about turning a College Tour Trip into a vacation. Janice has some suggestions for planning your college tour trip.