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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're so busy during the school year, we've never visited colleges then. My oldest did a tour the summer before senior year - it was during the pandemic and we woke up a little late. My youngest is doing a tour as a rising junior right now: we took the last week of school off, because her internship starts right after.

If you want to do a road trip, first you eyeball your college list, and how long it takes to drive from one to the other. Then you book college tours, far in advance. Get the admissions tours as well if they offer them. Colleges closer to home can be done during the school year, but somehow we didn't get around to doing that. [/quote]

Me again. Each time I made the visit list myself, because my kids were clueless at first. I built it knowing what they gravitated towards (DC1 geopolitics, DC2 biology), and given academic stats/admission profiles. We visited urban and rural schools, large and small, because I didn't know what they wanted in those categories. DC1 decided he wanted urban schools thanks to the tour, and went to a safety he really liked. DC2 confirmed she preferred wilderness - we'll see where she actually ends up. We stuck to the northeast/Quebec, because we didn't feel like traveling elsewhere, but DC1 did apply to St Andrews (got in, went elsewhere), and DC2 might apply to schools in the northwest (we'll visit only if she gets accepted).

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