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[quote=Anonymous]Haven’t gone through all the thread but:

Rather than do two full round trips from the DMV (that’s twice as much boring interstate driving as needed),  I’d do this as one long trip broken into two halves, one with each parent (ie, the parents would swap out halfway through).  One half would be New England (Conn College, Wesleyan, Dartmouth, UVM), and one half central NY (Syracuse, Cornell, Ithaca).   The Hudson valley schools (Bard, Vassar, Skidmore) can be tacked on to either depending on where you stay or schedule.

You could arrange a short family break halfway through where the handover occurs, with both parents.   The Berkshires (Lenox, Stockbridge), or Saratoga (which happens to be where Skidmore is) or the Hudson Valley (Hyde Park, Rhinebeck, Hudson) have nice hotels and diversions, and could be a relaxing way to break the trip up.  There’s also Cooperstown, although that’s a bit further west.

In addition to the other colleges I’ve seen mentioned above, on the New England part of the trip you might want to consider stopping by Trinity, which is right en route in Hartford.   In central NY you might want to consider stops by Hobart/Wm Smith and the University of Rochester (which aren’t far from Syracuse/Ithaca).   These are all fine colleges and while some commenters here might say ‘I don’t see that particular school for her daughter’ (who they’ve never met…), the fact is every school is made up of a lot of different personality types and majors.   Who can predict when lightning will strike (ie she likes the school AND gets in..). At this point, better to cast a wide net.

If you think Dartmouth is such a reach as to be not realistically attainable, but still want to visit it, I’d not just wander around the campus (which is beautiful) but also focus on the tiny town, which is basically two streets and is smaller than most of the other places she’s considering.  That way if she applies and doesn’t get in, you balance that bad news with ‘oh, but can you imagine being stuck in that tiny town for four years?’

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