How much time/energy for TOURS of safeties, when time/energy are limited?

No worries, and as I said, it was pretty out of the box. But there may well be other LACs closer to home that offer those kind of partnerships that she might be interested in. Going beyond just the schools with dedicated film studies major may help find safeties she likes better. SLAC are great because of the flexibility they often have to help students create their own personalized majors.

I don’t think you need to worry about visiting schools in person if you really can’t afford it (time and money). Most people can’t spend either of those for the luxury of searching residential college. She can show interest in other ways, I don’t think most, if any schools actually expect all their applicants to be able to visit in person.

I think the interest issue really come in for ‘safeties’ when people think of target/match schools as safeties. It’s the schools (the CWRUs of the world) which aren’t really safeties for anyone but some think they are safeties (due to stats) that come back to bite applicants in the bottom. If the schools on her list are actual safeties, don’t worry about getting there in person.

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