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[quote=Anonymous]I have read that most people visit after getting accepted (not true on DCUM).

I like the idea someone on here had of using local schools as proxies for types of schools.

So...UMD, UVA, GW, Georgetown, GMU, JMU could stand in for other types of further away schools.

I took my teens to about 10 campuses over about a year:

Pitt, CMU (Thanksgiving jr year)
Georgetown, GW, AU (Christmas jr year)
Indiana Binghamton, Illinois UC (summer trip)
Michigan (live near)
Cornell (summer trip)
MSU (admitted students day, live near)

My kids felt unable to differentiate much between the campuses.  Because they were too young and the visits were short.  And there are just a few types of school my larger family likes (we have ties to a few of these).  One thing my senior said was that all the tour guides had similar remarks to make about the campuses - e.g., here is the ritual lucky landmark object we don't step on, we have 1,000 quirky clubs, etc.

In retrospect, I'm not sure it mattered much at all. That's why I'm recommending trying someone else's approach of looking at local types of institutions.  To save your time and money while allowing your kid to begin to frame priorities.

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