College Admissions Webinar

There are a lot of ways to get information on the school that you want to apply to.  You can visit the college campus in person, or visit their web sites.  Another way that I learned yesterday was through a webinar (Web Seminar, I suppose).

After dinner, I and my son sat in front of the computer screen in our family room.  My son had signed up for the webinar about a week ago and received a link to the webinar.  After clicking the link, we were taken to the site where the webinar was taking place.  If you are not familiar with this idea, just imagine that you are in a lecture hall with a presentation made on a screen in front of the audience.  Webinar is the same; the screen is your computer screen.  You can even ask questions.  The webinar site provides a little gadget on your screen where you can type in your questions.  Then the lecturer selects some questions that are representative of other questions and provides answers live, through the speakers connected to your computer.  It was my first experience with a webinar last night.  It was so cool.  There is no need to drive or fly 5 or 10 hours to attend college admissions seminars held by the colleges that you are interested in.  The college admissions presentation comes to your living room!

There are many more webinars on college admissions, I suppose.  All you have to do is call or contact the admissions offices of colleges you are interested in and ask if they hold webinars on admissions.  If they don’t, they will after enough people ask them about it.