<p>neato,
Unfortunately, we were a hour plane ride away, not a 4 hr drive. We made 2 visits to NY/CT/MA schools and d interviewed with some alum at home. It is an expensive and time consuming process if you don’t live on the east coast. You want to visit while school is in session so you try to schedule visits on days when your child has a school holiday that don’t coincide with boarding school holidays. Gives you a very limited number of days to visit if you don’t want your kid to miss any school days. D was accepted to 2 schools she had not visited, so I’m not sure if visits are as important from applicants living a distance from the school.</p>