I am one that thinks that visits are overrated. Spending 3+ weeks looking is a lot of colleges if you are not doing something else. All the schools start to blend together. My DS and me toured 10 schools. 4 on a local trip, 4 when we were in DC for a week and 2 that we were at for some other reason. Of the 8 schools that he applied, he did tours at 2 of them. After an acceptance, we toured a 3 and that is where he is attending. Your evaluation of the school is too dependent upon the weather and your tour guide to actually be useful. We he went as an admitted student, it was helpful because we only had one other student in the tour. The “normal “ tour was walking around with 40ish people.
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