IECA Spring Tours
Organize a Tour
If your IECA committee would like to organize an in-person campus tour for IECA members, please fill out the form below.
Tour Registration Process
IECA is implementing a NEW lottery system to ensure fairness in the tour participation registration system.
- When tour registration opens, all those who are interested and committed to attending will have 48 hours to complete their preliminary registration(s).
- The preliminary registration will include providing credit card information, but cards will not be charged at that time.
- A randomizer website will select those to attend from the list of those who have completed the preliminary registration for each tour.
- Those who are selected for a tour will immediately have their payments processed to their credit card and receive a confirmation email.
- If two tours are running concurrently and you are interested in both tours, you must complete the registrations for both tours. In the event you are selected in both tour lotteries, an IECA staff member will contact you to ask which tour you prefer.
For those not selected, you will be added to the waitlist in the randomized lottery order.
- Should tour opportunities open up due to cancellations, those on the waitlist will be notified, in their randomized order, and given the choice to accept the spot or be removed from the waitlist.
Know Before You Register
Tours are thoughtfully planned by volunteers taking into consideration several factors, including planning a variety of schools to appeal to IECA members from all regions of the country with inclusivity in mind.
We try to include a combination of schools with national, broad regional, and special appeal–including HBCUs, CTCLs, single-sex, and those with a variety of strong programs and admission rates, when possible. Although not all the schools on this tour will work for your students, we hope you are able to appreciate them all and find something of value at each visit. Sometimes schools we would like to visit are unwilling or unable to accommodate us. This might explain their absence from the itinerary.
An info session, tour, and student panel are requested but schools ultimately provide what they can for our visit. If time permits, we will include a bookstore visit, but it is not always possible.
We do our best to plan a tour with schools in proximity to each other but sometimes, in order to capture a variety of colleges, the schedule will include some longer drives. We also plan tours well in advance and sometimes changes occur in school priorities, budgets, and initiatives, necessitating modifications in our itineraries.