The Detroit News Lugging a sleeping bag stuffed into an oversize trash sack and a backpack containing her calculus homework, Southfield-Lathrup senior Natane Singleton arrived at the airport a little late for her future. She was on her way to Harvard University for Pre-Frosh weekend, three days when Harvard tries to persuade high school seniors to accept its offers of admission. April is the time of year when high school students across the nation visit schools that have accepted them, giving them one last look before making a four-year commitment.
Some students take two weeks off to visit all the schools where they have been accepted.
Top universities plan their programs so they don't coincide with other top schools. Chelsea Clinton, soon to be a freshman, has visited Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown and Stanford but hasn't yet announced her decision. She visited Northwestern and Harvard last fall, but the special welcome for Harvard's Class of 2001 gave her the opportunity to see that school again recently. When she arrived at the gate of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, her flight was already boarding. Natane had hoped to do her calculus homework on the plane, but they spent the two-hour flight chatting about high school, Harvard and the hazards of the college admissions process.