It won’t come to this, but none of the 10,000-plus students expected at today’s big college fair will know if Cristan Trahey and her staff show up in their pajamas.
“Some of us will be in our office,” says Trahey, acting admissions director at American University, a private college in Washington, D.C. “Some of us will be at home on our laptops.”
The two-day event, billed as a first-of-its-kind international “virtual college fair,” is from 3-11 p.m. ET today and Wednesday at www.college weeklive.com. It’s expected to give students worldwide a chance to talk to admissions officers at about 100 colleges, see streaming video of experts and hear panel discussions on the college admissions process â?? all without rising from their armchairs.