Great questions!
Actually, if you look at the giant college visit thread on CC…..you will see that I posted on all of our trips! Just search my user name in that thread.
D26 did do one trip with her mom, so I did not report on her visits to Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Villanova, Swarthmore, and Lafayette (I am leaving at least one school out) because I was not there.
This started 2 years ago. We did a June 2024 “tour of the Northeast” first in her summer between sophomore and junior years. That same summer, we also went to VA to do 3 schools there (W & L, Richmond, and VT).
In October 2024, we visited Notre Dame during a school break.
January 2025–Gonzaga
March 2025–WashU and Vandy
April 2025–Kenyon and Denison
June 2025–big tour of schools in the Southeast
July 2025–schools in TX.
Also July 2025–schools in MN.
UC Davis was also close to us and we visited twice on random weekends.
Sometimes these were combined with volleyball trips that she was taking anyway. Also, D26 and I loved doing this. Even now that she is committed to Richmond…..we still visit schools. We went to Randolph Macon just the other day. We are basically college tourists. This was vacation for us.
D26 drove her own list with input from me. It may look like a random list, but there was a rationale for each school although admittedly with weird paradoxes (e.g., Catholic schools with women’s colleges).