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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you'll find, though, that most, if not all, of the SLACs you mention offer off-campus interviews with alums and/or staffers traveling to the area.  Where interviews are considered evaluative, the off-campus interviews are nearly always weighted equally.  In any case, it is unlikely that any admissions office would schedule an interview for a 10th-grader.  Most schools specify that candidates should be, at the earliest, 2nd-semester 11th-graders at the time of the interview.

That said, it's worth noting that many of the SLACs mentioned by the earlier poster weigh a candidate's demonstration of interest more heavily than do some of the more selective SLACs.  The reality is that they're trying to suss out whether they're just a safety or whether the candidate is genuinely interested.  So, yes, I would agree that a visit is helpful, but in planning your visits you have to weigh this against the cost and stress of traveling to see a lot of schools, as well as the time away from schoolwork and activities.  [/quote]

This is one of those situations where I think a family does whatever works for them.  Perhaps she was in the minority, but my DD wouldn't consider applying to a school she hadn't visited.  We felt the visiting, while time consuming and at times a bit logistically difficult,  was very much worth it as we were all very intent on finding a good fit.     Plus every she was accepted to every single school she visited and applied to and most of them also offered her considerable merit packages.  [/quote]

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