How do you afford all those college visits?

curmudgeon
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:57:51 +0000

D and I visited an embarrassingly large number of schools across the Midwest, South, New York, and Vermont. 4 road trips over 3,500 each. Some well over that mark. Then D and I used frequent flyer miles to New York, and she had paid trips to scholarship weekends.

We saved cash by finding cheap hotels, eating frugally, canceling all family vacations 10,11,12th grades.

The experience was invaluable. My D would say that as a result of all the vists that she knew there was no one perfect school for her. She saw warts on all of them, and great things about all of them. It was a healthy attitude to take since she knew finances might rule out a school after acceptance.