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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different people do it different ways.  We narrowed schools down to serious contenders before visiting.  And when we visited, we spent some time in each place -- usually stayed overnight near each campus and did something fun that was cheap enough for a student to afford (movie, student production, walk in the woods or along the water, visit to a used bookstore, late-night breakfast place).  Did the tours and info sessions too, but learned more from informal exploration (and prior website research re majors, course offerings and sizes, faculty, schedule, demographics, internships and study abroad, arts, sport, etc.)[/quote]

This is what we've been doing with my daughter.  She has been "fact finding" by looking at websites for schools she might want to consider and learning about what majors are offered etc and is narrowing them down.  We try to spend about 24 hours around a school if it makes the short list - maybe arriving in the late afternoon and staying at a place close to campus and then walking from campus to the town or city nearby (she wants a school walkable to a town).  It has been a lot of fun so far and she's not stressed about it.  For her, meeting professors and attending classes is really helpful too so I'm trying to see if she can schedule more interactions like that as opposed to the forced walk through campus taking notes.  I know everyone does things differently but this is what is working for us so far.  And I'm happy to go along because she's graduating next year and I will miss having her around![/quote]

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