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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think DC would consider applying to a school without visiting and he's not visiting any schools without one of us along. He has a short list of schools in NYC and Boston plus our state flagship. We're trying to coax him to consider some other schools so we're adding a west coast trip that will be mostly fun with only a little time devoted to school visits. I am certain [b]DC would balk at the idea of touring 7 schools in 5 days or some other crazy schedule like that. [/b]  [/quote]

Shit really? My kids cranked out three college visits a day. It was only two when three were geographically prohibitive. Our college tours were college tours, not vacations. They were fact finding missions. I made them write down impressions and crap like that after each one so they didn't mix up schools. [/quote]

There are different reasons for different students and families to do these visits.  DC knows Cambridge and Providence and New York pretty well because that's where our friends are and we've visited them a lot.  He's done plenty of research on requirements and course offerings and faculty members. But, he has to apply to more schools than Harvard, Brown, and Columbia.  And what matters to me is that he is enthusiastic about his second choices and safety in case he has to go there. So I really don't care what facts he collects on these visits, as long as he's excited about whatever schools he adds to the list. Rushing through three visits a day and forcing him to write a report afterwards wouldn't get him excited about any of the second choices.  [/quote]

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