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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have *applied* to these schools but we never toured.  In my mind, the only reason to tour a school before senior year is to figure out where you want to ED.  Those schools weren't in contention so we didn't visit.  In reality, the kid will get into just a tiny fraction of where they apply so there's no reason for the time, expense, or frankly getting their hopes up until it becomes a real choice.[/quote]

I posted earlier that we did the trip because there was a target school in the mix, not just reaches, we could afford to make the trip/mini-vacation, and we needed to feel comfortable with a possible cross country move for college.  In theory, we could have waited to visit once accepted but honestly it was nice that my kids already had visited enough of the colleges on their list that they could narrow down decision quickly once the acceptances came in.  We were able to stretch out campus tours from spring break junior year to fall of senior year and plan around breaks from school etc.  The accepted student events are more of a compressed schedule and less flexibility in picking a date so we wouldn’t have been able to do more than 2 that required any big travel.[/quote]

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