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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD had a wonderful college counselor at her NYC private school. She discouraged this and stressing the kid out prematurely.

She said 10 th grade visits were fine if you were nearby. Yes, we made easily 16 school visits before, during, and after 11 th grade.  Yes, I would have liked to have had the time/energy for two more states.

She applied to 9. Got in to 7.[/quote]

Tell me how you did this. [/quote]

Probably applied to 3 safeties, 3 matches, and 3 reach schools. In this case, 7 out of 9 is a reasonable result.[/quote]

I meant how the PP made 16 college visits during junior yr through application time.  It seems like it would be a bummer to commit every school break and a large chunk of the summer junior yr  on to be orientated around college visits.  But unless you start before junior year, I just don’t see how you can get to several colleges in spread out locations otherwise [/quote]
DP. Most people do not visit 16 colleges - that is unusually high.[/quote]
That got me thinking about our oldest who is currently a college sophomore. We put on a lot of miles, starting summer before 10th grade
WL, VT, JMU-informal
UVA, WM-formal
GW-formal
Duke, WF-informal
UMD-formal
Drexel-informal
Swat, Penn, Lehigh, Pitt-formal
Oberlin-informal
CWRU-Formal
Yale-Formal
MIT, Harvard-Informal
BU, NEU-Formal

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I'm always curious about students who are interested in such disparate schools as JMU and Harvard. You really needed a visit to determine which to apply to?[/quote]
Visited all kinds. Small, large, in-state, OOS, selective, private, public. Don't know, what you don't know. [/quote]

Sure, but you can tell which kids are headed to JMU vs. Harvard.[/quote]

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