A graduate listens to Tom Thorne's Commencement speech.
August 21, 2007 10:00 PM
Advice on College Visits
Well, I spent a good bit of the summer traveling, and in that time I visited more than a handful of colleges and universities – from the highly sought after, such as Georgetown and Duke, to obscure gems, such as Hiram, one of just forty college profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book Colleges That Change Lives. Here’s some advice regarding college visits – some trivial, some substantive – for students engaged in the college search as well as for college admissions officers…