College Visits

About this webinar

Collegewise is offering a College Visits Seminar to show you different tools to use in order to make the most of college visits during this time. But, even more so, we'll talk about the ways to effectively use those tools to build the list that's right for you.

What you'll learn

Collegewise experts will give you tips and insights, including:
  • How to make the most of a college visit and prioritize your resources
  • Important questions to ask while speaking with admissions officers or students
  • Tips & tricks to virtually researching a college campus

Your Presenters

Tom Barry
Tom served for four years as an assistant director of admissions at his alma mater, Colorado College, home of the beloved Block Plan where students plunge into one course at a time for three-and-a-half weeks before moving on to a new subject. After earning a master’s degree in international education administration from Stanford, Tom worked as a global programs manager for the African Leadership Academy before migrating to the Pacific Northwest to join Collegewise in June 2014.
A budding master chef who can flip food in a pan with only the rare catastrophic floor drop, Tom won first place in the “Took a Risk and Totally Nailed It” category of a recent pie baking competition for his original creation, The Burrito Pie. When he’s not counseling or cooking, Tom enjoys traveling, spending time in the great outdoors, and writing the occasional product review for USA Triathlon Magazine.
Brenna Heintz
Brenna has been immersed in admission since 2011. She first landed in admissions at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, then to MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions where she was a senior admission counselor, and finally to Swarthmore College where she just finished a run as their Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Recruitment. In these roles, Brenna has served as a faculty member for College Horizons and Cherokee College Prep Institute, and a reader for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s College Scholarship Program.
Brenna earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy at Tufts and then her master’s in Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Brenna grew up in Alaska and after finishing her undergrad, she did stints as a naturalist tour guide in Juneau and as a field research assistant at NOAA Fisheries Auke Bay Laboratories.
Brenna loves any dog she sees (including her own, Sprout, who sometimes ignores her), Peloton-ing, and cooking mostly vegetarian and vegan food (though still maintains loyalty to that wild-caught AK salmon). She's also pretty hard to rattle at work—if you ask how she handles stress, she'll tell you about the time she ran into a bear while leading a group of tourists through the forest.
  • Tom Barry
    Tom served for four years as an assistant director of admissions at his alma mater, Colorado College, home of the beloved Block Plan where students plunge into one course at a time for three-and-a-half weeks before moving on to a new subject. After earning a master’s degree in international education administration from Stanford, Tom worked as a global programs manager for the African Leadership Academy before migrating to the Pacific Northwest to join Collegewise in June 2014.
    A budding master chef who can flip food in a pan with only the rare catastrophic floor drop, Tom won first place in the “Took a Risk and Totally Nailed It” category of a recent pie baking competition for his original creation, The Burrito Pie. When he’s not counseling or cooking, Tom enjoys traveling, spending time in the great outdoors, and writing the occasional product review for USA Triathlon Magazine.
  • Brenna Heintz
    Brenna has been immersed in admission since 2011. She first landed in admissions at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, then to MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions where she was a senior admission counselor, and finally to Swarthmore College where she just finished a run as their Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Recruitment. In these roles, Brenna has served as a faculty member for College Horizons and Cherokee College Prep Institute, and a reader for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s College Scholarship Program.
    Brenna earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy at Tufts and then her master’s in Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Brenna grew up in Alaska and after finishing her undergrad, she did stints as a naturalist tour guide in Juneau and as a field research assistant at NOAA Fisheries Auke Bay Laboratories.
    Brenna loves any dog she sees (including her own, Sprout, who sometimes ignores her), Peloton-ing, and cooking mostly vegetarian and vegan food (though still maintains loyalty to that wild-caught AK salmon). She's also pretty hard to rattle at work—if you ask how she handles stress, she'll tell you about the time she ran into a bear while leading a group of tourists through the forest.