I couldn’t disagree more that it’s too early. We did a lot of opportunistic touring, being very clear that we were just visiting as we were in the area. Maybe it’s different in other areas, but our state has so few schools that other than the flagship down the road, there was so little here that to really get a feel for other options, they had to be out of state and we really didn’t want to cram it all into junior year - which thank goodness we didn’t do as my son in particular would have been sol by covid. They had no clue what an urban campus really meant, until the visited one - which coincidentally was when we were visiting their grandparents. We hit a handful of different schools when they were in early high school when we were vacationing in the area to just get a feel for what they might like - it was utterly no stress and tbh I’m not sure my kids actually applied to any of those schools - it was very much about big/little urban/rural - later they went from those preferences to also really diving into major and ec at particular schools.
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