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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would visit while you are there.  But it will make a big difference if you can get a real tour.  We visited two schools on a recent vacation to Los Angeles - one had a student tour guide, the other was a self guided tour.  We learned so much more about the school with the tour guide (even with the campus empty of students).  The other school was probably a better match for DC but it was hard to have any sense of day to day life for the students in classes or socially.

Some schools won't have student tours in summer.  But I think maybe more schools will have them this summer (than pre-COVID) because of the COVID backlog.  This is especially true in CA where there were very strict restrictions until mid-June. I think if we had been there a week later, we could have had student led tours at the second school, but both had just opened access to anyone being on campus the week before we arrived.

If your student is thinking of going as far away as CA, I'd either (1) just visit the schools they most likely would want to apply to if they are casting a wide net nationwide or (2) add CA safeties to the visit list one of their primary goals is to go to school in CA. [/quote]

Forgot to also add these:

Some schools were only allowing tours for rising seniors and stuck to that even after we contacted them to say we were coming from the east coast

Your NC options could be more broad than my (1) vs (2) recommendations above, because it's closer and probably easier for your to go back. [/quote]

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