Students share what surprised them about the transition to college.

Our admissions offices are busy preparing for your arrival during next week’s Kentucky Private College Week. To help you prepare, here’s a link to a Google map with all 20 participating campuses and the phone numbers for all 20 participating admissions offices. If you’re signed up to visit during PCW and have last-minute questions about directions; need to change your visit time; or just decide at the last minute you want to make an additional campus visit, please use these numbers to contact the admissions office directly.

Alice Lloyd College: 606-368-6036
Asbury University: 800-888-1818
Bellarmine University: 800-274-4723
Berea College: 859-985-3000
Brescia University: 877-273-7242
Campbellsville University: 800-264-6014
Centre College: 800-423-6236
Georgetown College: 800-788-9985
Kentucky Christian University: 800-522-3181
Kentucky Wesleyan College: 800-999-0592
Lindsey Wilson College: 800-264-0138
Mid-Continent University: 866-894-8878
Midway College: 800-755-0031
St. Catharine College: 800-599-2000
Spalding University: 502-585-7111
Thomas More College: 859-344-3332
Transylvania University: 800-872-6798
Union College: 800-489-8646
University of the Cumberlands: 800-343-1609
University of Pikeville: 606-218-5251

This short film from Kentucky Christian University student and YouTube user gooberboyfilmaker gives you an interesting look at KCU’s campus. Enjoy

Today’s video is a commercial for Brescia University in Owensboro. Located just down the street from yesterday’s featured school, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Brescia is a small Catholic University that invites you to “experience the Brescia difference.”

So we missed yesterday in our quest to provide a video every day through Kentucky Private College Week. But today we’re back, so enjoy this video from Kentucky Wesleyan College. It focuses specifically on KWC’s outstanding biology department, but even if you’re not a science person you get a sense of the campus and the community there.

Thomas More College student talks about the support provided by the college’s admissions and financial aid staff and why you should visit the Northern Kentucky campus.

Spalding University students and faculty talk about what makes the downtown Louisville unversity unique.

We unearthed one more 2 Minute Tour video from 2009. This time we get to see Midway College, or at least what it looked like two years ago (before they opened a new multi-million academic building). Midway’s main campus is an idyllic college campus where they house the traditional daytime women’s college as well as evening classes in the School for Career Development.

Kentucky’s independent colleges don’t just provide quality educations in the classroom. They also provide experiences outside the classroom that help students gain the skills and experiences they need to succeed in the workforce after college.

One such opportunity is the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities’ spring semester internship in Frankfort. Here an Alice Lloyd College student reflects on his internship experience at the Kentucky Historical Society and how his undergraduate experience has prepared him for both the internship and whatever comes next.

Right now we’re encouraging you to check out as many campuses as possible during Kentucky Private College Week. However, at some point in the future you’ll have narrowed down your list and will submit some applications to those schools you’d like to attend.

Have you ever wondered what happens to your application after you hit submit (or mail it in if you’re old school)? Watch and learn how they do it at Centre College: