Campus Visits

LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo courtesy of Davidson College Until now, college visits haven’t changed much over the last several decades. Chatty students walk backward through campus, sharing fun facts, folklore…

LEE SHULMAN BIERER Families frequently ask me if it is worth it to visit colleges over the summer since they know they won’t be seeing the real thing. My advice…

By LEE SHULMAN BIERER Right about now, as the parents of sophomores and juniors are scheduling flights, renting cars, making hotel reservations and booking spring break campus tours, this whole…

Families are about to load up their mini-vans and head for the airports and highways this week and next for the annual spring break campus visit blitz. Some last minute…

If this spring break is going to be your first stroll on a college campus since your own graduation day, here are four tips to avoid some rookie-parent campus visit…

My campus visit mantra is: “It is worth more than two hours of your time if you might  spend four years of your life there.”  I am a strong advocate…