However, do not be sold on a school because of your tour and visit alone. Toward that end, seniors are allowed to make one college visit trip per term during the school year, but not after May 1. You will need to coordinate your trip in consultation with your college counselor and with the approval of all of your instructors. However, make sure that you use the Common Application in conjunction with a thorough investigation of the school, which may include a visit, a letter indicating interest, an interview, etc. Also, make sure that you tailor each application, as much as possible to each individual school through the essay or personal statement.
Colleges pay a fee to be a member of the common application.
Ifthey didn t believe in it, they wouldn t pay to be a member. Certainly, cavalier use of this time-saving tool is not in anyone s interest. While there are no definites in the college admission process, there are so many different schools, with so many different criteria for admission that when the time comes to apply to colleges, you should consider a broad range of options. Generally speaking, your perfect fit school should share many of the same characteristics of your reach schools. Take the elements you love about your reach and apply these to schools where your academic and extra-curricular profile matches the college's admission criteria perfectly.