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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could consider a one way car rental. Or come back via Skidmore and Bard.[/quote]
I haven't specifically visited these colleges, but to visit schools in New England/New Jersey you could take the Accela train up to Boston, rent a car, and then drive back roughly along the 95 corridor. I would do New England as a separate trip during spring break, and then do a 3-4 day weekend to do a PA/Eastern OH/upstate NY loop.

When you are trying to visit multiple colleges, pick the three most important to do a formal information session & tour at and work your timing around that. Drive the night before to the school with the tour and stay nearby. Have breakfast, go to the session & tour, eat lunch at the student union, and then hit the road to the next place. If there is another school nearby, do an informal drive through/walk through if you can, but don't try to time formal tours for everything. For my DC1 (looking at engineering schools) we did a spring break trip timed specifically to visit Purdue's big info day. Looped through PA/OH/WV/MD and hit 3 planned formal tours, 1 unplanned (timing happened to work) and drove by/ate lunch at 4 other schools. The other schools weren't specifically high on the list and we could have skipped them if overtired (and the last two were drive bys, not walk-arounds) but just seeing all of the variety in campuses was really informative and helped with understanding other schools of interest that we couldn't visit.[/quote]

This is helpful, thank you.  Both me and my daughter get overwhelmed/tired pretty easily so it’s a good idea to plan 3 different tours on 3 days and do informal if they fit.  We also have family in Boston (although she’s not interested in any Boston schools).  Now I just have to plan a route that makes the most sense.[/quote]

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