Tips for planning your MBA school visits
Some of you may well remember your underbeplay官网地址graduate college visit tour.你可能和你父母一起去了；你可能和一两个兄弟姐妹共用后座。You may have been the driver,figuratively and literally,安排参观的学校都是你想去的。有些人可能根本没有参观过，但必须根据地点选择学校，cost,或者家庭期望。本周，I'm talking about how you can add value to your MBA school research with a visit,no matter what your past experience visiting campuses has been.
If you did make underbeplay官网地址graduate school visits,did your mother embarrass you by asking about dorm safety or academic advising?What did you really care most about–the gym,剧院，the labs?参观很有趣吗？Did you take an active part in searching for the information that would inform your decision?What were the students like (in addition to the tour guide)?What was the look and feel of the place?
如果你今年秋天从事你自己的MBA课程研究项目，这是你再次访问学校的机会，with your own agenda,按照你的时间表，可能，without your siblings.（仍然，we encourage you to bring with you to beplay官网体育Babson as many family members as are interested in the school,or interested in your success at our school.) So,here are three quick tips to keep in mind.
1。Check out schools' websites for their visit options.(Here is alink to beplay官网体育Babson's.)
正如我上周建议的那样，如果你已经对MBA课程做了一些研究，you may already know which schools you want to visit.Depending on whether you want a part-time program or a full-time program,这些访问可能是本地或区域性的，or they may be international or very long distance.Before you invest your time,you want to know what the school is offering on campus: general information sessions,program-specific sessions,课堂访问，lunches with students.What are your questions (besides "Which school is the right fit for me?") Knowing the questions you want to answer will help you decide what school visit offering you want to take.
2.不要害怕要求或不定期的拜访。
您可能不喜欢预设程序。The schools' schedules may not fit with your work/life schedule.Do not be afraid/intimidated/nervous about calling and politely asking if you can come for your own visit,在那里的时候，你能安排时间去上课/和学生交谈/和招生代表交谈吗？Schools should be delighted to help you.我们在巴布森beplay官网体育尽我们所能接待来访者。
3.准备好惊讶。
Surprises can be really good sometimes (think bonuses,各方，免费午餐）。如果你一直在使用虚拟工具，甚至是老式的打印工具，你可能很好地掌握了每一所学校的事实，like: beplay官网体育Babson offers one MBA,通过4个不同的项目交付。The beplay官网体育Babson MBA is only one that grounds its students in Entrepreneurial Thought in Action (ETA) so that they may take action and make an impact everywhere.
But you need to add color to your facts.这就是你在网上看到的访问可以给生活带来的乐趣，can add or subtract from the picture you've developed in your mind.校园更大吗？更小的，more colorful,比你想象的更沉闷？人们会停下来和你说话吗？如果你看起来迷路了（或迷路了？），帮助你。你能很容易找到招生办公室吗？如果你来的话，他们会给你腾出时间吗？Were you wowed by your class visit?
Whether or not you subscribe to the "blink" theory of decision making (shout out to Malcolm Gladwell),do not discount the powerful effect a visit can have on your decision to apply to a school.
祝你好运。好好想想。
最好的，
巴巴拉