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I don't think it's terrible if you go, but it's not necessary and might be a slight negative. But if your daughter strongly wants you to go, you could. If you do, though, let her ask most or all of the questions and take the lead in any discussions with reps. (This will serve you well on college visits, too, where you will want to go with her - and colleges expect that many parents will come - but she can take the lead on questions and can go to some sessions, visit classes, etc., without you.)[/quote]

Same PP - after reading the helpful post from the parent who went to the FCPS fair, I think I've changed my mind on this. It's probably fine for you to go as long as your daughter does more/most of the talking and you don't take over (but OK for you to ask some questions, especially as the previous poster noted about financial aid, housing, etc. which your daughter may be less likely to ask about).[/quote]

Hi PP and OP -- I'm that poster at 10:01 from the FCPS fair. Regarding demonstrated interest -- we have done one college visit in person, in the summer just because we were close to a school of interest on vacation, and that college has sent plenty of mail since then and acknowledged the visit specifically. So I know that at least DD's name is on that school's radar. It can't hurt, especially with schools that are not sitting back and waiting for applicants but which are more interested in telling students about the school. DD says she and other kids get told at their high school to be sure to get on mailing lists etc. as colleges do note who has approached them for information, according to her counselors' office.

FYI, OP, the FCPS fair encouraged students to go online in advance and get a bar code that they then took with them, and college reps (mostly) had bar code scanners; the rep could just scan the code and the kid's name was automatically on the mailing list and marked as having attended that particular fair. OP, see if they're doing this for your Arlington fair.

If not, one good piece of advice I read was to have your kid print out a bunch of sticky labels with her name, address and e-mail address so she can stick those onto the colleges' paper mailing lists or information cards they'll ask her to fill out. We didn't use those because we had the bar code, but taking labels would save a lot of time that your DD would otherwise spend filling out cards by hand.

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And there you go! Another helicopter parent that will join you there! [/quote]

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