17yr Old Doing College Visits Alone?

Pizzagirl
Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000

If you are in a position to pay $50-$60K a year for anything, then you probably wouldn’t have much a problem with the expense of traveling to a college, arranging & paying for local accommodations, & taking time off work to do the visiting.



Fair enough, but actually what happened is that during my kids’ sophomore year, we were traveling to FL to visit the grandparents; the flight was overfull and I negotiated for us to be bumped and got $1600 worth of tickets. This enabled us to essentially do the airfare for our visits for free (we took 3 trips). I took very little time off work to do this, as I leveraged 3- and 4-day school weekends and spring break.