<p>Agree 100% with @Charliesch. We intended to visit prior to applying and couldn’t work it in - so S applied without visit (as fate would have it, UVa was the ONLY school he didn’t get to visit before applying). Once he was accepted, we did visit during Days on the Lawn - and it was so much better a visit than it probably would have been prior to knowing he was already in - because he got to focus his visit on a completely different set of things and from a different mindset. For us, in hindsight, a visit prior to applying would have been less helpful in his decision to attend. </p>