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...amount of contact these pre-freshmen had with their probable college of choice also differed greatly from student to student. Norton says she first visited the campus at age 13 and "somehow knew this was where I was going to end up." She has continued to visit frequently...
Most expectations people had all seemed to be high, but they were not all well founded in fact, as a few pre-freshmen soon found out. "I got a bit of a culture shock when I found that some of the people in Canaday got drunk Sunday night. It never hit me that it would be an everyday occurrence," says Norton of her first experiences in a college dormitory...
...Other pre-freshmen, though, did not seem as enthused with the classes they visited. "I've always considered myself to be a science person, so I went to neurobiology," says Priest. "I found it boring. A lot of the stuff I'd done before...
...even with these exclusively pre-freshmen events, John I. Kwan, from South Korea and Phillips Exeter Academy, felt the only flaw in the otherwise informative program was that he wasn't able to meet enough of his future classmates. "I made a conscious effort to try to get to know the other people here, but I was only able to meet about...
...Tuesday, the second day of the event, the pre-freshmen were welcomed by President Derek C. Bok, Director of Admissions Laura G. Fisher, and Angeliki Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History. Afterwards they were invited to visit classes and lunch in the Union or the houses...