I have two kids 3 years apart in school, so my younger kid got dragged along to all of the older kids visits, too. Older kid was really not that into school or the idea of going to college so it wasn’t a lot of schools, but we did visit some of the ones that are local to us with a friend and that made it more fun. I highly recommend that. I don’t think we would have gotten to half the ones we went to if a friend wasn’t going too.
We did also visit schools on the way to somewhere else occasionally.
Turns out my oldest did not want to go to college right away. Took 2020 for a gap year and is now in community college.
I do think my younger one got something out of all the visits, though. But the really significant visits have been in the past month or two. D22 is focused now and really interested to see what the schools have to offer. She wanted to sign up for two open houses for prospective students that have more programming than just the general info sessions.
For us the virtual sessions were not well received. Too much online school, not interested in an online college visit.
The college visits where we just walked around an empty COVID lockdown campus were more useful than the virtual info sessions, but by far the best visits have been in the past month or two when students were on campus. She can see if she feels like she fits in, if she could see herself there.
With a 10th grader I would recommend going to some events at your local colleges that he might be interested in — football game, theater, comedy show and just let him have fun and walk around and see what it’s like.