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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what we're doing to over April break with my sophomore. Planning to visit a range of schools. They're all on the ambitious site for admissions, but hopefully it will inspire them to plow through the work during junior year and also give them a sense of what type of school they want to shoot for senior year.[/quote]

I wouldn’t start with ambitious schools.  I would find safeties and matches first.

You don’t have to travel far.  There are lots of local options that will let you explore things like small vs big (UMD and Goucher). Urban vs suburban vs rural (JHU/GWU vs AU/Towson vs Gettysburg) etc . . .[/quote]

+1 Definitely don’t start with reaches! As the parent of a senior, it has been so nice all year knowing that my daughter has a safety and a target that she loves. It makes everything else icing on the cake. And it would have been hard to get there if we had visited some gorgeous Ivy first thing. [/quote]

DC and peers have been struggling with pressure this year, and that pressure starts with college tours.

Re: walking v. scheduled tours, I’d start w scheduled first, if possible. After the first few, they all start to sound alike (“Finally, I’d like to tell you why I chose Acme U….”), but it helps to know what to look for/think about.[/quote]

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