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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When does interest tracking begin?  For example, our sophomore has taken a few tours when we were visiting somewhere.  Once their email is in the system, does that mean the tracking has begun?  [/quote]
Great idea to tour starting sophomore year.  You might want to over time keep engaging with the schools that become of real interest and even re-tour, interview, go to interested student days in jr or sr year.  Some colleges from what I hear want to see touring in junior or senior year - so just in case, keep that in mind...[/quote]

Intersting.  We would definitely consider going back to local-ish schools, but ones that require long flights we wouldn't visit again unless accepted.  [/quote]

And that sounds fine. Demonstrate interest, in a *reasonable fashion.* My kid is in state. She: did a self guided tour junior year during COVID (signed in at admissions), interviewed (virtual), went to a Fall Focus Day *because she was deciding between schools for ED* (1/2 day program you can talk to representatives from business, or STEM, or history, IR & government, etc), took the optional essay seriously (and they are clear it’s not optional), and opened emails from WM (and once in while clicked a link in them to a page that she thought would be interesting).  Admitted

That’s for ED. She essentially did revisits for schools before applying ED, because she needed to be certain and could not revisit after acceptance and decide not to attend.

For an RD, I can’t imagine more than one visit is needed, especially if you aren’t in state.  You can also engage more virtually. For example, have online student lead Zooms about campus life.

For ED, demonstrate that you kid has done enough research to be confident WM their true first choice, and not just the highest ranking school your kid thinks they have a shot at.

For RD, demonstrate that your kid did some research and feels WM would be a good match. Vs, just applying to 15 schools and deciding to only research those they get into. I wouldn’t visit twice for RD, because you can revisit before committing. [/quote]

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