College visit tours

vballmom
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:14:14 +0000

My son took a whirlwind tour of Southern California colleges organized by our local YMCA. 8 colleges in 4 days, plus a stop at Santa Monica Pier and a half day at Magic Mountain. It was a little crazy - I think they ended up spending 2-3 hours on each college campus.

One advantage of it was that the Y had arranged for alums of my son’s high schools to do the campus tours at a couple of the colleges. Another positive was that my son got the flavor of a lot of schools in a short time. But the downside was that there really wasn’t much big-picture discussion of what each college was about and what made it different from the others on the tour.

Overall I’d say it was worth it, but then again it was quite inexpensive.