If you want a side trip, in 2 days we did 3 scheduled tours and drove around all 5 colleges: Amherst, Smith, Mt Holyoke, Hampshire and UMass. 3 made her final list. It’s about 2 hrs from Boston.

Babson is in a gorgeous area (Wellesley/Babson Park). Do a morning tour and then enjoy lunch in Wellesley.

Anonymous wrote:We're doing 2 each day during spring break as part of a larger NE tour. It's going to be exhausting but we've got to do it. DC has gotten SO much more out of seeing schools with students on campus and so this is our last option before fall.

Would you mind sharing generally your NE tour college list? I haven't researched enough to even know what schools are geographically close (except BU/NE and Harvard/MIT-which we'll likely skip).

We're doing 2 each day during spring break as part of a larger NE tour. It's going to be exhausting but we've got to do it. DC has gotten SO much more out of seeing schools with students on campus and so this is our last option before fall.

Anonymous wrote:When you walk around MIT and Harvard, you will see many students from DMV area. MANY! Especially from TJ!

How do you know they are from DMV, even TJ? Do they have a tag on themselves?

Tony Soprano and Meadow had a fantastic tour of New England slacs.

Often overlooked on trips to Boston are the 3 colleges in Wellesley - Babson, Wellesley, and Olin College of Engineering. All 3 are superb and all have cross registration with each other. Their proximity makes it wpeasy to get to all 3 on the same visit. Babson is known as a business college, but it’s not like any other business college that I’ve ever seen. I think of it as more of a liberal arts college for students who are interested in business.

Two other colleges in close proximity which can be easily combined, are Brandeis and Bentley, both in Waltham. Brandeis is a very small (3500) research university. Bentley has outgrown its business school origins and is now a very strong comprehensive college with a full range of offerings.

When you walk around MIT and Harvard, you will see many students from DMV area. MANY! Especially from TJ!

2 a day is very doable. Agree with the pictures. They all have pretty distinctive vibes- at least the ones we toured.

Agree with the other posters. One visit a day is more than enough.

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend scheduling one tour each morning. Have lunch on/near campus and maybe walk around a little. Then take the rest of the afternoon and evening to do something fun. More than one tour a day and they all start to blur together. Besides, you both deserve to have a nice spring break.

+1. Be sure to take lots of photos of each school too.

I would recommend scheduling one tour each morning. Have lunch on/near campus and maybe walk around a little. Then take the rest of the afternoon and evening to do something fun. More than one tour a day and they all start to blur together. Besides, you both deserve to have a nice spring break.

We did two a day and it was tiring but we managed to see all the ones my DC wanted. It wasn’t easy as there was a lot of hustling to get from place to place and dropping of DC while I went to look for parking. Otherwise he would have been late to the session.

We did 2 per day, and it was exhausting (that included one morning Boston College and one afternoon at Brown in Rhode Island). Two of the colleges we visited told us 25% of the population of the city of Boston are college students, there are so many colleges there.

Make sure your child takes good notes, or they will all start to blend together.

Like the entire DMV we will be heading to the Boston area over spring break to check out some colleges. For those that have done this before, how many colleges per day did you do? Did you do them all in 1-2 days and then spend the rest of the time touring Boston and having fun? Also, it looks like we will be doing self guided tours for the most part - is that a negative in your view? Thanks!