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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is a senior. We visited UVA and W&M the summer before Junior year. Back then she was not interested in colleges at all and had bad grades in sophomore year. The visits really helped her gain focus on academics and prepare for SAT. Spring break we visited Cornell. In summer we visited Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. At that time, colleges became real and she started to get realistic. In the fall we visited Penn State and VA Tech, and the local schools. These school were not on her list, but I insisted on including them as her safety. She got accepted by Penn State in early Dec and we visited Penn again.
Now she is happy with going to Penn, even though she didn't even want to consider it at the beginning. We are still waiting for in-state schools but I heard it is hard to get into UVA or W&M. Between Tech and Penn is going to be a hard decision but I think she will pick Penn.

My advice for OP is, as long as the two visits served the purpose of getting him motivated, you can wait till summer to do other visits.

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I disagree about visiting schools in the summer. it is really important to visit a school when the school is in session. (Fall or Spring) Seeing how the students are, what the campus feels like with students there etc. Seeing a bunch of buildings is really no help.

Visiting a northern school in the winter is also a really good idea. All schools look great in the fall when the leaves are falling. If your child likes a school when it is cold and the snow is on the ground makes a huge difference. I also agree that fall is really too late. It is very hard to get a school visit in when you are trying to do a fall sport, still study and possibly take your SAT's again. We actually started sophomore year. Nothing big, just to local schools. It really helped fro DC to see the difference between a small school and big school. Spacing out the visits also helps. After a while, you do get school over load. [/quote]

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