Is this college trip a waste?

megpmom
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:26:59 +0000

If OP’s school is like ours. Kids are given 2 excused college visit days for junior year and another 2 for senior year. Anything over that is unexcused (or the parent has to write a “sick” note). One or two unexcused days probably won’t matter too much - but they may prevent the kid from being exempt from finals, which for my kids was a big deal. We did a lot of visiting in the summer.

My opinion? Cancel the Rice trip and just let her see the campus in the spring. Use the 2 days to go to schools that she is really interested in.