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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS applied most places EA (didn’t ED anywhere) and now has a nice selection of good options, but no obvious front-runner. He applied to a pretty diverse group of schools became he really wasn’t sure what he wanted. (FWIW, he applied mostly to northeast publics, a couple midwestern publics, a couple small LACs, and a handful of international schools.)

We’re going to try to visit every school he’s considering, but so far he has liked almost every school he’s seen and not fallen hard for any. I think he’d be happiest at one of the LACs, but naturally it’s the most expensive school on his list, even with pretty generous merit. And because I know people will ask, the US schools are pretty much all in the 50-120 range as far as USNWR rankings.

So, those of you who’ve BTDT, what did your kid do that helped figure out the best fit? Did admitted students days make a big difference for those who went? [/quote]

My kid got into all their targets and safeties.  They considered their top 2 targets and top safety in their final decisions. 
For this: we visited all of them (one was a first visit) over April Spring break.  Then for us, since $$$ was not an issue, we let our kid choose which was the best fit for them. All were excellent schools (ranked 30-65, so similar schools).  Two had great merit (think $30-40K/year for a 85K+ school).  Our kid chose the highest ranked school without any merit (lucky us).  However, that was their top school from all our tours anyhow.  It was the college where first visit, they really came alive and you could tell they could envision themselves there.  
Then for the April tour, we redid a general tour.  The engineering school didn't have a tour the day we were there.  So I found a student to give a tour (Parent FB pages are great for that).  At the end of the tour, as my kid asked questions, it turns out the female engineer giving us the tour was also into dance---and gave my kid all the details about dance on campus, even for non-majors.  I think that sealed the deal---It was the perfect fit for my engineering daughter (great eng program) and the opportunity to continue dancing easily told her "this is my place".

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