{"id":663,"date":"2010-07-16T02:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admissions.me.holycross.edu\/?p=663"},"modified":"2010-07-16T02:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:16:20","slug":"college-visit-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/07\/16\/college-visit-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"College Visit Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-345\" title=\"6a00e54ed0db8e8833010536f8f30b970b-800wi\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/09\/6a00e54ed0db8e8833010536f8f30b970b-800wi-104x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a scene all too familiar \u2013 several families waiting in line at the reception desk in the HC Admissions Office, parents holding copies of the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, waiting to inquire about a good place for lunch near campus.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a word of advice to all those families who take road trips to make college visits.\u00a0 When you\u2019re on campus, you\u2019re trying to get a sense of what that college is all about\u00a0 &#8212; what it\u2019s like to live there; what it\u2019s like to learn there; what it\u2019s like to spend four years there.\u00a0 Take advantage of what you have at hand to get the most out of your short time on campus.\u00a0 Don\u2019t read the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> and eat lunch at a restaurant.\u00a0 Read the school newspaper and eat lunch on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me.\u00a0 You\u2019ll never forget our <span style=\"color: #888888\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/studentlife\/dining\/eateries\/kimball.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mac and cheese.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888\">Andrew N. Carter<br \/>\nAssociate Director of Admissions<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a scene all too familiar \u2013 several families waiting in line at the reception desk in the HC Admissions Office, parents holding copies of the Boston Globe, waiting to inquire about a good place for lunch near campus. Here\u2019s a word of advice to all those families who take road trips to make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/2010\/07\/16\/college-visit-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;College Visit Tips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-carter","tag-college-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}