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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Just soak it in. Your child will probably start drawing some conclusions within a few visits. [/b]

Something that's occurred to me after getting two kids through the process is that you can kind of pick up on energy level and access to professors, even from a packaged visit. We've seen some schools where there was a feeling of warmth and excitement, and others that were a little dead or cynical. We've seen some where the main point of contact is an admissions dean, and others where they very easily connect you with a professor in your kid's field of interest. This all adds up as you move through the process.

Oh, my husband and I like to grab a student newspaper when we can. THAT usually sheds a lot of light! 
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+1 and, at least with my kids, it helped for me to not talk too much or make them talk about it afterwards. But encouraged them to make notes for themselves.

Over the course of late 10th-early 11th, DS visited W&M, VT (big school, college town), VCU (big, urban), Randolph-Macon (small). He had a very strong preference for the big school/college town. Ultimately also visited JMU and UDel. Got into those + VT and goes to VT.

DD tagged along on those visits and had an inclination that she preferred smaller so we also then visited CNU (hated it), UMW (ok), Washington College (liked that best). And then we did more focused visits throughout junior year of schools that were more like Washington College (small, rural, strong environmental program).[/quote]

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