Advice on college visits?

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*Take a tour of the main library on campus. Chances are your kid will be spending quite a bit of time there. Note the size of it and the resources available. It might not seem important now but when you get to upper level courses and need to use it more, it will matter if the school has alot of library resources. I know that it mattered alot to me that KSU has the 2nd largest library in Ohio (next to OSU) and tons of research help available.

*Get as much info as you can about PARKING, particularly for freshmen. Can he have a car on campus as a freshman? Are there certain passes/parking lots for freshmen? How can students access their cars if they can't have them on campus?

*Find out if a ton of students go home on the weekends. That might not be a big deal if the school is in a big city (where there's lots of stuff to do), but in rural or small town setting, it can be really boring if all the students leave to go home on Friday by 3pm.

*See if he can sit in on a class that most freshmen in his major at the school typically take. For example, if he is going to major in Marketing, see if he can sit in on Marketing 100.

*Be sure to take some time and tour his academic college/department building. For example, if he is an Accounting major, take a walk around inside the College of Business and see what's in there.