Most students, when they’re looking at colleges, really have no idea what they’re looking for. They hear things from their friends – I had a student that said, “Wow, I really want to go to Macalester College”, I said, “That’s great, where is Macalester? No idea. So I like to say that there are 2 steps in learning about a school. One is what I call the academic part. You look in college guidebooks, you look on a college’s website and you look to see what kinds of majors and programs they have. The second part is the visit where you go and you see the types of students on campus to see if you really have a gut-feeling that you'll fit in there. Now, some students can’t fly all over the country and see their schools, but what they can do is they can go locally to different types of schools. So in southern California, a parent could take their child to UCLA, a big public school; or a Claremont, which is a small Liberal Arts school. At least then a student will understand what the difference is in size and different types of school are. So together, the intellectual part and the visit part, students will start to understand what he or she really wants in a school.