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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the fun part in my experience, doing the research, visiting when you can, talking to people about the schools... exciting times!

We started early because we love to college tour, so by the time my kids were fall of junior year, we had been to 10-12 college campuses across the country. We only did official tours at W&M and UVA, the others were just walking around campus, exploring the towns, just getting a feel for the atmosphere. We've also attended some sporting events (football and basketball) which are fun to do and give you a different sense of the student life.

Naviance is actually very helpful but certainly not the be all and end all. Its a good starting point but if your kid doesn't know what they are looking for yet, they will put the wrong parameters in and come up with some schools that ultimately they probably won't be interested in. There were some really kooky schools that came up high on my daughters list, no name colleges that neither she had nor I ever heard of. That said, when you go to each schools page, they will list the cross applications, the places where other students in your school applied along with that school. That is helpful to leverage other people's experience to put some ideas on the list.

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That had been our plan, until COVID.[/quote]

Well not knowing your personal situation with regard to risk, but you can still do driving trips, day trips etc. Anything that is close by, even if it's a college that is way beyond reach either via stats or finances, just getting them looking at what a college LOOKS and FEELs like will help get them excited about the prospects.

Public schools are always going to be "open" to the public so you can drive to the town, park, walk around campus, visit the campus store. No, you're not gonna see tons of kids out and about playing flag football in the quad but they will have a visceral reaction to the environment, either like or dislike.[/quote]

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