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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't been through this yet,  but my thought is that we'll do some casual visits in 9th and 10th grade to local schools or schools within a few hours drive.  By casual I mean no official tours, just a chance to look around get a feel for the place, and think about questions like big or small?  Urban or rural?  HBC or Predominantly white?  I'm also hoping to so a couple summer programs where he sleeps in a dorm and gets a feel for campus life from the inside.

By casual I mean, walk around campus, maybe go see a sporting event, maybe a tour, but no official events or interviews or anything where we need to give his name.

Then, in junior year start looking a little more strategically, traveling to schools that meet his criteria and seem like good matches.  I can see taking a couple days Junior Year, and maybe spring break.  Senior year is when I'd pay to fly out to see a more distant school.  [/quote]

This is pretty much our plan, as well.

So far, we've done one casual visit (daughter is finishing up 9th grade) because we happened to be vacationing in a city with a college that she finds interesting. It was veeery informal: we walked around campus and had lunch in the student center. Next year, we'll visit a couple of local campuses.[/quote]

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