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[quote=Anonymous]Totally useless, in my opinion.

We researched schools online, according:
1.  My kid's preferred majors and how developed they were at each institution.
2. Those colleges's acceptance rate and accepted students' stats, to assess what was a reach, target and safety compared to my kid's stats.
This is how we built a short list.

Then we visited those campuses, including Canada but except the one in the UK, to get the general campus feel and so that my kid, who had never visited any such institutions, could get an idea of similarities and differences and try to see himself there. It acted as a wake-up call for my kid to really start thinking about his college essays, which turned out to be one long torture to write - he's slow and perfectionist, and made so many drafts, tailored to each college on his list.

Then we did all the Admitted Student Days, which turned out to be critical to sort out the top two contenders: he turned down the reach, on a campus and with a curriculum he realized was not suitable for his goals, and chose the target/safety (same price) with a campus and curriculum he liked much better.

None of this would have been apparent in a college fair. It's only when he talked to the director of the program at one school, and attended lectures by professors at the other, which only happened during the Admitted Student Days, and not during the campus tours, that things became clear.

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