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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lack of demonstrated interest. If you don't have alum parents, never visited campus, never paid for a summer camp, and your "why ___?" essay is surface level bulls***, odds are you're NOT going to college 1,000 miles away from home, you're just shotgunning blasting the app.[/quote]

Ugh this makes me nervous.   My DS's first choice school is a "safety school" (fits most of the description in 18:44.)   He definitely has the stats to get into something "higher"--but this is the school he wants and feels is the best fit.
He knows a few current students at the school so he's been to visit a few times, gone to football games, etc. but has never gone on an "official campus tour."  I told him he might want to but he insisted he's been on campus enough times to have got a good feel for it.
He did go to a summer camp there over the summer so hopefully that will help with "demonstrated interest?"

He applied last week so I guess we should know in the next couple weeks if the lack of official campus tour has ruined his chances.  [/quote]

Have him contact his regional admissions counselor. [/quote]

Before finding out the decision?  What should he say?
He could schedule a tour now, for a date a few weeks from now.   Would it look better if he at least has a tour scheduled?[/quote]

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