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[quote=Anonymous]DC specifically asked to visit on school as a sophomore.  We were already going to that state for a holiday so it was easy to take a tour on the way.

Then we visited a bunch of schools on the East Coast as part of a winter break DC's school had as a junior.  Turned out that East Coast wasn't at all what DC wanted and ended up only applying to one of the schools visited.

So we then spent spring break of junior year visiting schools  in the west.  For all of this, we squeezed in short sight seeing.  If there is a tour at 9 am and you are finished by 11 am you can see something before a late flight or as a break in driving.

At the last minute senior year we went to one school that DC thought they might want to ED to and we weren't ok with ED to a school that hadn't been vistited. (Ended up not liking it enough to ED.)

In the end, we went to admitted students day for a school not previously visited and applied RD at last minute and that is where DC ended up.

Point is that we made tours into mini- vacations.  We had plenty of airline points.  And, you can try to visit them all but it's probably better to visit a range and leave room at the end in case they end up somewhere you haven't seen yet.

DC2 wasn't interested in touring until junior year (possibly because of being dragged around in 8th grade on a lot of older siblings tours.)[/quote]

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