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[quote=Anonymous]If there was an expectation in your family that you would go to college after high school, did your parents take you to visit many different campuses?   We did visit a variety of campuses, however, some of that was tagging along with my sister's college visits because she was just one year ahead of me in school.  Nearly all our tours were UC and CA State Universities.  I applied to a few out-of-state private colleges with the expectation that I'd go out for a tour if accepted and given sufficient aid to match the cost of in-state public schools.  Was accepted everywhere but they were all too expensive.

Did you go on full tours, or just kind of stop by and look around on your own?   Full tours, except for UCLA.  I'd been there a number of times over the years with school trips/events so I felt like I was pretty familiar with it.

Did you get to choose which colleges you visited?  Yes, although my dad did push me on visiting Cal Poly.  It was his favorite school for recruiting new grads and so he really thought I should go there. I'd glad he did because I ended up loving it and went there.

Did your parents have any limits on what you could not visit (for example, if a college was very far away)?  Only as above, that far-away schools would have to wait until accepted/real chance of attending.

And finally, what year did you graduate high school and what area did you grow up in? Graduated 1987, southern California.[/quote]

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