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[quote=Anonymous]Your kid is going to the school, not you, and I think what a parent would experience or notice in a brief visit is pretty useless.  Most of the "due diligence" necessary can be done on line.  If the school is an academic good fit from stats, departmental strengths and your kids talents/interests, in a location that you can cope with in terms of the travel (i.e. paying for flights etc) then can;t see why it matters that you visited the school. More important that your kid visit if possible, particularly without you, staying with an enrolled student that perhaps went to the same HS. That type of visit is far more important to see if the school seems like a "fit" than anything a parent would figure out on a 1 hour tour and session with an admissions officer that actually has nothing to do with the school once the kid is admitted.

Both schools my two DDs are at (and thriving at) were ones they visited on their own (although were in places we had been so we were to be fair somewhat familiar with the campuses etc, I had applied to one of them as a student myself)[/quote]

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