What are good questions to ask a university?

Question

As a junior in high school its so many colleges to choose from. Incase of going to visit a certain college or a recruiter comes to meet with you. What questions do you ask them?

Answer 1

My best advice for the college search: Don't pick up any materials that don't pertain directly to costs and scholarships. They can't really describe the actual school very well because of teh very nature of the experience.

One of my questions I asked each of my Admission Representatives, preferrably out on the campus of the school when they're not expecting it, is to ask them "From what you know about me, why do you think that I should come to this college?"

Usually, it knocks them for a loop and makes them think for an answer, and they're usually fairly truthful, because it is an oddball question.

Others that registered high on my list were "How much of the student body is Greek?", and the related, "Does that affect campus life much?" This is mostly because I don't really like, nor fit into the whole Fraternity scene, and was a concern for me.

The last two were for before the visits, "Can I attend a class or a brief part of a class in my major(s) to get an idea of how the school runs?" and "If possible, can I stay the night in (Whatever dorm on campus catches your eye) hall with a student?" These usually help give you a better idea if the school is a social and mental fit for you. Let's face it, if you're an outcast from the start, you'll be hard pressed to succeed academically, and the same is true if you aren't able to keep up with the school work, you'll never be able to make any friends.

Finally, try and arrange your visits for the middle of the week. This usually doesn't work out very well at any time but Spring Break, but the answers it helps you get are valuable. Arrive about 15-20 minutes early, near the top of an hour between 9am and 3pm, and sit outside of the admissions office and watch the student body. If you feel like you'd fit in there or like what you see, then that's a college you can look at.

Answer 2

If you go on a college visit, try to find out about campus life. Greek, student groups, intermural athletics, stuff like that. Also, ask about academics, like education level of professors, rankings. Good luck and have fun. It's the best time of your life.

Answer 3

Ask approximately academic help and enrichment classes, Ask approximately scholarships, Ask approximately greater curricular activities, ask approximately activity placement at commencement, ask approximately instantaneous connectivity, which will lead into your laptop questions, ask approximately student to coach ratios, certainly ask approximately properties around the college yet determine you're eligible to go off of campus, many campuses insist you survive campus your first 2 years.

Answer 4

Going to a university is for you so you need to think up questions for your benifits like, how many students there are, what kind of scholarships they offer, what kind of help they offer after you graduate, what's their ranking compared to other universities, what are the courses offer for your major, what kind of experience do student at that university get with outside of school and stuff like that...

Good luck!

Answer 5

A good question to ask is: If I were to ask a student here, what he liked best about this school, how would he answer?

Answer 6

I found, if you ask them to show who, in the private sector supports and provides scholarships or bursaries you will get a good idea of that schools history.

Answer 7

Do you have an honors college?
What are the most popular majors on campus?
How diverse are the student organizations?
ANything else that is of importance to you personally. ...e.g.
Do you have practice rooms for non-music majors?

Answer 8

ask about there job placement progam. some schools help you find a job after you graduate and others don't...might be something that could help your decsion.

Answer 9

Why do you put me in debt to learn.

Answer 10

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