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[quote=Anonymous]I've seen about 20 colleges with 2 DCs over the past two years.  A few suggestions.

1. Don't waste your whole spring break visiting schools. Do some fun stuff.  DC won't be around much longer.

2. Spring Break is a good time to visit the schools that are farthest away.  It is a good time to do the mandatory Boston trip.  Two schools is the most you can realistically see in one day.  And I would not recommend more than 4 on any one trip.  At some point, they all start looking and sounding the same.

3.  Let DC lead.  If DC isn't ready to seriously look at schools yet, don't sweat it and don't push it.  They won't be interested anyway.  I saw a lot of kids on tours who were clearly bored to be there, although their parents were clearly not.

4. Both of our kids got more out of the summer tours because by that time they were starting to more seriously think about colleges.

5. Save the most likely schools for last.  DD, in particular, liked every school more than the last one.  I would wait for early senior year to look at the most likely schools.  We saw NYU last and that is now DD's top choice.  The first school we saw never even got an app.

6. If DC's school's Spring break is at the same time as other schools be ready for some big crowds.  Fortunately DCs privates had off-cycle breaks  -  but even then the Spring break tours were bigger and less personal than the summer tours.  Seeing the actual students, however, is the best benefit of a Spring a break tour.

Have fun.  The tours were definitely more fun for us than the kids, but we had lots of good quality time traveling!
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