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[quote=Anonymous]We really felt the crunch because most colleges didn’t start opening up tours until June last summer due to COVID and my kid plays a fall sport that started practice mid August.  The way we did it is we prioritized the colleges where our child had the best chance between early action, acceptance rate and merit/cost that were the furthest distance and made that the focus of the summer visits. If there was more of a high reach school, we would tack it on, but wouldn’t make a trip just to see that one school.

The focus on safety/targets/financial safeties was helpful because my kid was able to eliminate some of the safeties and targets based on those visits. You don’t want to have safeties/targets that you wouldn’t actually want to attend if your don’t get in or the money doesn’t come through for the other places.  We weren’t in a financial situation to ED situation but if we were, I would research and try to figure out which school on the list offers the best ED chance and prioritize that visit and then safety/targets. For the closer colleges, we went during teacher workdays or half days, Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day, and weekend open houses (which seemed to be more common with the state schools).  As a pp mentioned, those registration dates fill up fast so don’t sleep on signing up.[/quote]

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