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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you so much for the helpful advice.  I agree summer is not a great time to visit.  I just see that junior year is so busy and hoped to get a head start so DS could do fewer visits during the school year.  But now I can see how that might be counterproductive.  As for helicoptering, if we are forking over $60k for a school, I certainly think that the parents have an interest in checking out the campus, too![/quote]

I posted earlier. I'd ignore some of the naysayers - especially people who are sharing their own experiences and not recent experiences with their kids.  Times have changed, even from 10 years ago.

We did some visits before junior year in part to get a sense of different types of schools to help DC figure out what she was interested in.  It was not at all counterproductive, and it made the limited time we had for visits during junior year much more focused.  With both kids in time consuming sports and heavy AP class loads we needed to minimize missed days during the year so were limited in the visits we could do during the school year.  We took advantage of spring break and long weekends but those don't always work out because the admissions offices need to be open too.[/quote]

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