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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a rising junior, and we've casually seen some campuses during trips but not anything intentional. Now that we're entering junior year, I don't see when we're going to find time to do actual college visits before application. I don't see it happening during junior year, winter break, or spring break. Summers are filled with jobs, family visits, and summer programs. I'm also thinking better not to visit some schools and gets hopes up... isn't it better to apply to colleges and visit the ones you get into?

Between my spouse and I, we have experience at a suburban school, 
[b]mid-size Ivy, a LAC, and an Ivy in a big cit[/b]. And knowing our kid, I think we can describe some of the types of colleges as they make their list.

What are we missing that we can't learn online or talking about our experiences?[/quote]

If these are the places you think your DC is applying to then no, I would not visit.  Those are the places everyone applies to and seem to want to go to even if they know nothing about them.  Just because they are prestigious.

Our tours have been only targets and matches so far, to see which of those DC gets excited about.  We will visit one or two reaches in the fall (currently a junior) after his junior year grades are done and after the Aug SAT is that we will know what is a realistic reach vs pipe dream.  But my advice is build from bottom up.  Get them excited about targets and matches.  Then find some reaches later after they’ve found some in the first categories they can see themselves being happy at.  The worst way to do it is to start with “dream schools” and go down the rankings from there.  [/quote]

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