College tours: how many colleges per day?

[Anonymous]

Most schools do formal tour and info session twice per day (am/pm) so it would be hard to do more than that. You could also do a drive through/ self guided at a 3rd if it’s close by. We got more out of student led tours than info sessions at most schools but if you can do both it’s worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Full tour and info session ? 2 per day was our max.

Yes. They usually have a morning or afternoon session. We squeezed 3 in with one being on our own and 2 being tours/info sessions. We could do 4 if on our own just walking around with tour app.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Full tour and info session ? 2 per day was our max.

2 is my max. It all runs together. And if you do more, there's no time just to wander around campus a little bit.

[Anonymous]

This subject has been asked many times. I suggest you search the forum for additional responses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be fairly challenging to make the schedule work for more than 2, so 2 is max.

But 1/day is much more tolerable, and ideally no more than 3 or 4 over the course of a college visit trip.

I agree with no more than 2 per day, ideally. But you can easily make a full week of 8-10 universities. If you live in CA and want to visit Northeast schools, you are likely taking a full week in summer or spring break and fitting in all of your kid's choices. Not really affordable to do 2 trips of 3 days each vs 7 day visit 8+ colleges.

[Anonymous]

2 was tough I think it depends upon the weather and the tour guides.