Those of you who wanted your DC driving distance from home, I’m a bit envious right now. Bought fall break ticket plus get to school ticket in August for DS and am now contemplating who is accompanying him in August and who is going for family weekend in late October. My Southwest points aren’t accumulating nearly rapidly enough!
I feel your pain, @PhxRising. We are skipping fall parents weekend since it’s so close to fall break.
Forgot to add D to the list!
By Student~
2kidsinky’s D - University of Alabama
4CookieMonster’s D - University of Miami
a2zgirls D1 - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
albert69 - Wichita State University
amandakayak’s D3 - University of Pittsburgh
Barfly’s S - Texas A&M University Honors Program
Bigbossman1’s D- United States Military Academy (West Point)
bopper’s D2 - The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Honors Program
Catmatmc’s D - The College of William and Mary
CD2015’s S - Cornell
co4usc2016’s D16 - Univ Southern California
co4usc2016’s S15 - Cornell
clubacres’ D - Smith College
crepes’ D - Mount Holyoke College
deborahb’s S - University of Tulsa
Dadinator’s S - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
daisychain’s D - Oberlin College
DiffMom’s D - University of Mississippi, Croft Institute, Chinese Flagship
disneydad’s S - Vanderbilt University
dustypig’s D - Scripps College
Economo- D Colorado School of Mines
eerboco’s D- University of Scranton
Elliemom - University of Rochester
FCCDAD’s D1 - University of Virginia
Felicita’s S - Yale University
FloridaKids D2 - University of Notre Dame
giterdone’s S - University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
HeliMom74’s D - University of Oklahoma
Hoosier96 D - University of South Florida
lhenkin’s S: Carleton
Illinoismom4 S- Butler University
ILMom13579’s D - Murray State University
Irishmomof2’s D - Baldwin Wallace University
itbmom - East Carolina University Honors College
jmnva06 D - Juniata College
Kelowna’s D - Yale University
kidsrexpensive’s D - University of Georgia
kidsrexpensive’s S - Rochester Institute of Technology
LadyArwyn’s D: University of Washington - Seattle
Limner’s D: Grinnell CollegeJ
Loganator’s S - Texas A&M University Honors Program
Marylandfour’s S - University of Rochester
Maystarmom’s D - University of Arizona
mdcmom’s S - Cornell University
Mom24boys S - Grinnell College
momof2vt S- MIT
momsings S - Ithaca College
MsMommy’s S2 - University of Southern California
mtrosemom’s D - Washington and Lee University
MuggleMom S - Olin College of Engineering
musictherapymom’s D: Marywood University
OHmomof2’s D: Amherst College
oneofthosemoms S - University of San Francisco
PetraElise’s D - UC Santa Cruz
PhxRising’s S - Swarthmore
rhandco S - RPI
Sally 22’s d - University of Georgia
scholarme’s D - University of Pittsburgh
shellz S-United States Air Force Academy
Shoboemom’s D - University of Central Florida- Honors College
singermom4’s S - University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
smvlib’s D - University of California, Santa Cruz
STEMFamily’s S: University of Oklahoma
suzy100’s D: U of Notre Dame
tranquil218’s D: Georgetown University
Threesdad’s D: Lehigh University
Twogirls D: UNC-Chapel Hill
Veggylover’s S: Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Honors College
vistajay’s D- University of Southern California
VMT’s D - Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
VSGPeanut’s D - College of William and Mary
W2BeHome’s D - Florida State University
Wolverine86’s D2 - University of Kentucky
Wolverine86’s S - University of Michigan-Flint
Wrestlersmom’s S - Truman State University
Wrights1994’s S - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
~By School~
Amherst College: OHmomof2’s D
Baldwin Wallace University: Irishmomof2’s D
Butler University: Illinoismom4 S
Carleton College: lhenkin’s S
College of William and Mary: Catmatmc’s D, VSGPeanut’s D
Colorado School of Mines - Economo D
Cornell University: mdcmom’s S, CD2015’s S, co4usc2016’s S15
East Carolina University Honors College - itbmom
Florida State University - W2BeHome’s D
Georgetown University: tranquil218’s D
Grinnell College: Limner’s D, Mom24boys
Ithaca College: momsings S
Juniata College: jmnva06 D
Lehigh University: Threesdad D
Marywood University: Musictherapymom’s D
MIT: momof2vt S
Mount Holyoke College - crepes’ D
Murray State University: ILMom13579’s D
Oberlin College - daisychain’s D
Olin College of Engineering - MuggleMom’s S
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI): rhandco S, Dadinator’s S
Rochester Institute of Technology: kidsrexpensive’s S
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Honors College: Veggylover’s S
Scripps College: dustypig’s D
Smith College: clubacres’ D
Swarthmore College: PhxRising’s S
Texas A&M University Honors Program: Loganator’s S, Barfly’s S
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Honors Program: bopper’s D2
Truman State University: Wrestlersmom’s S
United States Air Force Academy: Shellz S
United States Military Academy (West Point): Bigbossman1’s D
University of Alabama: 2kidsinky’s D
University of Arizona: Maystarmom’s D
University of California - Santa Cruz: smvlib’s D, PetraElise’s D
University of Central Florida-Honor’s College- Shoboemom’s D
University of Georgia: kidsrexpensive’s D, Sally 22’s d
University of Kentucky: Wolverine86’s D2
University of Miami: 4CookieMonster
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor: Wrights1994’s S, a2zgirls D1
University of Michigan - Flint: Wolverine86’s S
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: giterdone’s S, singermom4’s S
University of Mississippi, Croft Institute, Chinese Flagship: DiffMom’s D
Uńiversity of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Twogirls D2
University of Notre Dame - suzy100’s D, FloridaKids D2
University of Oklahoma: STEMFamily’s S, HeliMom74’s D
University of Pittsburgh: amandakayak’s D3, scholarme’s D
University of Rochester: Elliemom, Marylandfour’s S
University of San Francisco: oneofthosemoms S
University of Scranton - eerboco’s D
University of Southern California: MsMommy’s S2, co4usc2016’s D16, vistajay’s D
University of South Florida: Hoosier96 D
University of Tulsa: deborahb’s S
University of Virginia: FCCDAD’s D1
University of Washington - Seattle: LadyArwyn’s D
Vanderbilt University: disneydad’s S
Washington and Lee University: mtrosemom’s D
Wichita State University: albert69
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI): VMT’s D
Yale University - Kelowna’s D, Felicita’s S
It would be interesting to see a Google Maps plot of this, however we are in final exam mode (college) and I’ve not time to do it…
Wonder also, how many different states and so on - no international?
My daughter will be 600 miles and 3 states away from us!
Only 4 states away, but 1,892 miles. :-S
1 state away. 2 1/2 hours. Perfect!
2 panhandles and piece of another state away, ~600 miles. 10+ hr drive, so I’m not coming home for Thanksgiving.
Same state, 105 miles. “I would be there in 3 hours for any emergency I couldn’t handle from here.” (That includes getting from work back to my car.)
@rhandco I have one started for you, will do more tomorrow http://www.mapcustomizer.com/map/Collegeconfidential%20%20map%202015
2400 miles and eight states, but grandparents are 5.3 miles on back streets, uncles and aunts are less than an hour, and cousin+wife are a couple of hours and in a wonderful city to visit - DC.
@MamaBear16 the reason I want to go to family weekend has more to do with my feeling like a part of the experience than seeing DS, who will be back from fall break for less than two weeks.For a parent who’s made it to most games, coached Odyssey of the Mind, judged speech & debate and in all ways figured out how to be a part of my kids’ activities, I feel like I need to go to the college and be part (even a small part) of it all. If I can picture things, maybe it will help me understand DS’s life a bit better. Plus we’re making a financial sacrifice over what we could have spent at GSU so I feel like I want to make sure we’re getting our money’s worth! Unfortunately, that financial sacrifice includes a lot of plane tickets!
@musictherapymom, very nice start.
900 miles away. I’ve already bought plane tickets.
3 states plus part of a district, 250 miles, 4 1/2 hours unless DH drives, in which case it’s more like 3 3/4. I regret that my father is almost 90 and in a nursing home. He loved DC and we used to go there all the time when I was little. If he were younger, I would have bet anything that he’d just drive down there on a random weekend to visit D15.
I have no idea how many states, but it’s almost exactly 3,000 miles for us according to Google Maps. We have no plans to ever drive there.
@PhxRising - I completely understand. I’m the kind of parent that wants to visit, too. We just decided to spend the travel money for Thanksgiving instead of that weekend, since it comes about a week after Fall Break. I’m sure that when the time comes, I’m going to wish I had planned to visit. 
Cool map!
S’15 will be less than 30 miles away from home, and 3 miles from D’12.
I do not envy those of you with large distances to cover for move in/out days and the “usual” shuffling back and forth. You will cope. Everyone does.
D will be about 35 minutes up the road. But if you have ever been in Hampton Roads, you know you’re rolling the dice on I64 travel times.
I think @STEMFamily is the only other poster sending a child to OU, but if there are others and the kids can’t make it home for Thanksgiving, etc…I will happily feed them! We are roughly 40 minutes from Norman and I always cook too much anyway.
My D will be 2,500 miles away more or less. I’m not sure it matters much once you need to get on an airplane. I’m working through the logistics now, but almost anything can be ordered online these days so I know we’ll be able to buy and/or ship anything we forget. And very quickly I will hand all those logistic responsibilities over to D to manage so it is a short term consideration. Thankfully.
I agree @woodsmom, it doesn’t matter much once you can’t drive there. I went to college about 1,000 miles from home and other than the initial move-in and move-out at graduation I didn’t have or need any help from my parents.