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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How early is too early to visit schools? I have a 9th grader and am contemplating *somewhat* planning our vacations for the next few years around potential schools to visit. I know it’s early, but DC is definitely leaning towards a general area of study (humanities related rather than science/STEM). So thought it might be a good idea to check out schools of different sizes and locations before we narrow the field down. Would it be worth it to do an official tour this early on, or would you recommend just doing casual visit/walk around campus?[/quote]

If me, I would do casual visits of a range of schools (e.g., size, locale, etc). Grab coffee/cocoa/bubble tea after each visit - or at the meal later that day - and ask your DC for their one word impressions. If you can, get them to write it down. If not, you do it later. Then pull them out when you brainstorm lists/plan tours for end sophomore year, etc. Your DC may still have similar ideas, but may now think they are more into a rural LAC and less into an urban setting.

GL and have fun! We had to go through this in COVID - we made it work, but full on tours rather than sneaking around campus are much better![/quote]

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