Dartmouth and U Michigan tour questions

[Anonymous]

I'm planning DC's college tour during spring break. Trying to work out the logistics but these two schools don't have their March tour schedule up, so it's difficult to plan around them. (And yes, these are two separate trips, in case anyone is wondering). Extrapolating from their January and February schedules, it appears that both only do tours on Mondays and Fridays. For those of you who have visited, can you confirm? Also, anyone know if Dartmouth has tours during its spring break (as it looks like they will be when we are in the area)?

[Anonymous]

Call admissions

[Anonymous]

Your kid should call admissions, not the parent.

[Anonymous]

It's perfectly ok if mom calls for this. They're not going to make note of it. I called Dartmouth for something when my kid applied and he was still admitted and is a freshman. I'm sorry but I don't remember anything about the tour schedules as it was 2+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

It's fine for a parent or child to call about tour schedules at Michigan. Call a desk/main office, not your regional admissions officer.

My son is a freshman. We toured in the summer. The tour is fine but I think you can learn a lot more walking around Ann Arbor and checking things out for yourself. The tour will take you to a model dorm room which is a very ordinary room. That's pretty much the only thing you can't do on your own. Except maybe you wouldn't be nervy enough to go into the Collegiate Gothic Law Library reading room (it's Harry Potteresque).

If you post the dates of your trip, and mention what you're interested in, you could get some specific suggestions for making your trip more insightful. I answered a few posts like that last year.

It's helpful to have your DC's name recorded as a visitor for "demonstrated interest" purposes but demonstrating interest can also happen without coming to campus (to be fair to all). Request materials by e-mail, attend webinars, etc. I mention this in case you can't find an official tour that matches your schedule. You can still learn a lot of what you want to know without an official tour.

After the tour, there's still admitted student's weekend and then orientation if you matriculate. These overlap a bit in terms of showing the students around.

Also keep in mind the University's spring break is the first week of March.

[Anonymous]

We toured Dartmouth during the summer, which was fine so DD got to see the sophomore summer session.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We toured Dartmouth during the summer, which was fine so DD got to see the sophomore summer session.

Great point. I hadn’t thought about that!

[Anonymous]

Visited Dartmouth last year spring break week. They definitely had tours in April - at least two a day during the week - so I'm sure they will have some tours during the weekday. As everyone noted above, if you need to make plans now, then just call them.