<p>We lucked out with NU, and did get a Friday off of school. The other schools often offer a choice of dates, and you can try to work those around to your best advantage. In our case, expense-wise (because we came from the west coast) it made the most sense to just take one long road trip. Our school didn’t have any mandatory days issues, son scheduled the time as far in advance with his teachers as possible and had all the work. Probably because we are a small District, all teachers knew son, his college goals and work ethic, and were very accommodating. Nobody forgave work–he got it all done on the road. The biggest bummer was missing his last year of varsity mock trial because of the audition timing.</p>