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[quote=Anonymous]Since you are talking about spring break of junior year, and you have little time during summer, plus a kid with a fall sport, it might be good to be really strategic about your visits.  DS had a similar schedule and we ran short on time.  Since his private school wanted every student to apply to four safety schools, he ended up applying to a few schools that he'd never seen, which isn't the best.

Does your DD want to do science and math?  Then MIT, a northeast SLAC strong in science, and possibly University of Rochester.  Is she artsy, then Brown, Vassar and Bard.  Is money a factor?  If so, then maybe one Ivy but spend most of your time focusing on schools with good merit aid.  Is she a legacy somewhere? Start there (I wish we had spent more time closely looking at the schools were DS was a legacy.)

The list that you have (which looks like Princeton (NJ), Boston schools?, Amherst in Pioneer Valley, Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale) looks like a tourist trip, not really a trip for a student short on time.  Even the most extraordinary, or well-connected, kids in DS's class do not visit or apply to all of the ivy's.  [/quote]

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