How do you afford all those college visits?

Kathyc
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:56:02 +0000

D had the same reaction to NYU–get me out of here. Since we live in California, we have done most of the East Coast schools as family vacations–one trip to NY for Cornell that also morphed into Columbia, and another spring break trip (with Dad) to Boston for BU, BC, Tufts and Brown. She was able to write off BC and Brown after the trip, so that was useful. She’s visited Northwestern while in Chicago to see Grandma. She has visited all of the California schools either because we live close or her aunt took her. The only school she’s applying to she hasn’t visited is Purdue, so if that becomes important we’ll do that next spring. Some of her early possibilities she dropped before we had to figure out how we were going to visit, which helped. She also was adamant no LAC’s, which also narrowed the field.