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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Visiting before making a short-list of college was essential for my child, otherwise he might have ended up stuck with schools he would not have liked to attend. He needed to see the places to decide where to apply."

How does visiting before applying solve this problem??

If you are choosing schools based on substantive things like whether it has robust Greek life, whether they require everyone to take the same classes first year as part of their curriculum, whether it is one where you have a shot a joining its D3 sports teams, then silly things like not liking the dorm bathroom set up or the personality of your tour guide won't matter. [/quote]

I agree that a tour guide won't make or break the application decision, but actually being to the town and thinking "wow - I cannot see myself living here for four years" will.[/quote]

However, I love the schools that have 3-4 tour guides for each scheduled tour and allow families to pick whom to go with.  Typically they have a variety of majors (1 engineer, 1 bio/chem/premed, 1 humanities, etc) .  My DC toured their college twice.  Both times there was a ChemE as the STEM choice (my kid wants CHemE).  While any engineer would have helped, it definately helps to get a vibe for what students in your major are like.  Esch tour we could immediately tell who all the STEM kids were, as they joined the engineer. [/quote]

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