tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204358997085828680.post7113389843346532625..comments2023-10-31T02:08:57.631-07:00Comments on 2010 ILC at Brown: A New Perspective and a Delicious DinnerMadeline Kronenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809038721402994691noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204358997085828680.post-22823819901301652612010-07-10T19:49:42.436-07:002010-07-10T19:49:42.436-07:00Selene,
I hope you do take the time to go onto th...Selene,<br /><br />I hope you do take the time to go onto the different sites set up for each of these schools you're visiting. This may give you a great opportunity to compare the "sales brochure" with what you saw in person.<br /><br />Make no mistake about it, Selene, these admissions officers are also salesmen. They're selling you a product and it's their school.<br /><br />Just like when you're in a department store you pick a product off of the shelf, you read the label and based largely by what you saw on that label you decide to make a purchase or put it back on the shelf. How many times, though, do you get home and find that the product inside isn't really what you envisioned when you read the label?<br /><br />The same goes for a lot of these schools. You need to do just as you're doing right now and paying a visit to the schools for a first hand look at what's inside the package.<br /><br />Unfortunately, though, you're not really seeing the school the same way you'd see it when it's in full session.<br /><br />You need to se it when there are thousands of students filling the hallways and classrooms. You need to be there not during the beautiful summer days but also in the dead of winter when it's freezing cold or raining 96 days out of a hundred. You need to be there and see regular classes--especially the larger lectures--to see if you'll get the kind of education you really want.<br /><br />This all takes work, Selene. As many of the Brown-I students are writing in their farewell blogs, because of what they've seen and done these past three weeks, they have a much better feel for what to look for and even what questions to ask.<br /><br />I'm betting that by the time you head for the airport to come home, you'll all be in the same position as the others and be wiser about the whole college selection process.Don Gosneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com