College Visits - How to Maximize Your Experience

For high school students the transition from high school to college can be intimidating.  It is seemingly a very big step for them perhaps because of fear of change and the unknown.  Many high school students do not know which colleges to apply to and what to expect.  Thus I believe it is important for all high school juniors and seniors who are prospective in attending college in the coming years to go visit colleges.  Visiting colleges will allow prospective high school students to get a "feel" for the college and will help them choose which college is right for them.  In effect, the exposure to colleges will gradually reduce the fear of the transition to college life.  Though college visits hesitant high school students will in time embrace college as not something to be feared, but a thing to look forward to.

During my junior year of high school, I made my first college visits to the East Coast in the United States.  I went in particular to the Boston area to check out the many schools that I had thought of applying to. There are many universities and colleges in the Boston area such as Boston University, Boston College, UMASS, Brown University, Dartmouth, and Amherst College just to name a few.