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[quote=Anonymous]Short story: Junior Year (6): one during fall semester and three during spring semester, and two over the summer. Senior Year (3): all three fall semester over long weekends.

Longer story: No tours sophomore year or the summer after. DC had absolutely no interest in talking about college then, let alone visiting. It stressed me out a little, TBH, but we gave DC some space.

Then in the fall of junior year, the kids had a long weekend off from school in October, so we took a family roadtrip to a big, fun OOS flagship school. It was a beautiful weekend, we did the tour, watched a football game, explored the town, and enjoyed the whole experience. (A year later, DC applied to the school.)

That one trip got the ball rolling! DC was much more engaged after that - willing to talk about what they thought they wanted and didn’t want in a school, but to their credit, they were pretty open minded.

So we fit in another three tours over a long weekend in March (missing two days of school.) Again, it was a fun trip, this time including some basketball games.

We toured a few other schools over the summer - not ideal because there weren’t many students there, but good enough for DC to confirm they wanted to apply.

And did the last three fall semester of senior year. Again, we timed them during long weekends when they were off from school, but they did miss a few days here and there.

ALL of these schools say they consider DI to at least some degree 🙄 so we felt pressure to visit. DC applied to 2 other schools that they didn’t visit. Neither considered DI, and it just seemed like way to much to do any more.

Advice: Make the trips FUN. Don’t rush through the experience - stay over a night, if you can swing it in terms of time and money. DC was SO busy in high school with academics, sports, ECs, and friends. It was so nice to have the one-on-one time together!!

(After the first trip, which we enjoyed as a family, DH and I took turns doing the college trips/tours. This made DC2 happy - one tour was enough for them for now - and DC1 liked it, too. Apparently, when it comes to “college stuff,” together we “can be a lot”. So divide-and-conquer worked much better for our family. YMMV.

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