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Is it ever too early to do a school visit?
tringo335
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I'm aiming to take the test between December and June 2018 so won't be applying until end of next year most likely. I have a few work trips coming up next month to cities where schools I am interested in are located. Is it too early to do a school visit since I'll be in town? I was once told not to visit a school until you've completed your LSAT and you're ready to apply. Is this a rule or am I just overthinking? I'd love to visit any school I'm interested in in order to make an informed decision and many are in cities that are far from where I live. If I have an opportunity for a free trip from my company, I'd like to take advantage of it.
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Just visit the school you're interested in
Screw what other people say, do what you want! 
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They start em young now. It's never to early.
But really, it's never to early. You visit to get a sense of the campus, an idea of what life is like there. You want to see where you will spend the next three years of your life. Never a problem to start early.
I'm planning on applying next year as well, but I plan on visiting schools this winter. Go for it!!
Yeah, it can't hurt to get an idea of the school's location and such. I think I've more or less been to every school I'm considering and I'm not applying until next cycle as well.
Have you visited NYU and/or Columbia? If so, I'm upset with you that you didn't HMU for to chill upside down emoji
Haha Don't worry, Mikey! I have been to NYU and Columbia a long time ago so I haven't had any official visits there recently. I would never do that to you!
Oh IIGHT.. Just checking
HMU if you're ever around though 
If you can afford it and have the time... why not?!
You know I will! Barack and Mikey shall run the city soon
Yay! Thanks guys for the input. I will definitely start scheduling those tours ;-). SO EXCITING!!
swaggggggg, lmao.
there's a meet up w some TLS people this weekend. if you just so happen to be in town Sunday, let me know
e: sorry for taking over the thread with something off-topic, haha
I've also started lookin at the actual apps on LSAC for each school that I plan on applying to. Some of them have essays/short response questions in the app that they don't mention on their websites, so I've started thinking about my responses to those. I'm neurotic
oh my gosh genius! yes! I am so going to start doing this lol.
On another note - I guess when the person gave me advice they were saying some admissions offices look poorly on people who visit too early ... which didn't make sense ... no one has heard anything like that right? I'm assuming this won't matter but I don't want any little thing making me look bad to an admissions rep!
I can't see how that would reflect poorly... What the heck was their reasoning for that?
I don't think you have to worry about that whatsoever
lol, I've definitely never heard anything like that.
My question: how the hell would they even know? Are you planing on visiting the school, and the admissions office? Or just visiting the school? Am I missing something....
Certain schools will know. Like for NYU, for example, they require you to go to their admissions dept I believe it is in order to be able to get into their buildings' security. Either way, I don't think visiting too early would ever be a problem, which is kind of weird someone would say that.
@TheMikey even than that seems odd. They keep a list of everyone who's ever visited. Then cross reference the dates of visits with applications...somehow I think they don't give a toss... haha
LOL! right! I have been on school visits when I was thinking about B School and some do keep tabs on you. When I visited NYU you had to register in advance, attend a class, take a 2 hour tour, go to a panel session etc. Then they followed up with you afterwards... but you're right, I feel like they wouldn't hold anything against you for not applying right away or something... Lesson learned I need to get advice from smarter people ha!
The only negative that could potentially come from it is more of a lack of benefit... if you visit once you've applied and contact admissions they will look at it as a continued interest and use it as a positive on your app to indicate you are more serious about attending. Probably wouldn't get that leg up by visiting too early. Again, it won't hurt, it just won't help.
Oh yeah, I could totally see the lack of benefit. However, I'm just interested in why that person said it may reflect poorly on people who visit too early. Maybe there is a reason I'm not considering. I've read a good deal of admissions books and I don't think I've read anything warning against this. Better safe than sorry, I guess.
Yeah I agree with everything you said. I was just piggy backing on the most recent discussion chain
carry on ol chap.
@Mellow_Z you have a good point; but I think if there was a school you REALLY wanted to go to you could just make another visit to prove you're really interested (they probably won't remember that you already visited) or just do a follow up letter showing your interest.