Yes excellent point, @Golfgr8 about kiddo writing note to AO. When we went on our trip of visits, we took cards with us and every night in the hotel, DD2 wrote a thank you note to the two AO’s she met that day. (Yes we visited 2 schools a day – one day 3 – for 6 days, but we had to make the most of the trip since we live far away!).
@chemsider She is at Andover. And just so you know, you can easily find info like that (answering things like: “hmmm…I wonder where they ended up? and I wonder where they applied and what their SSAT scores were?”) by checking older threads, in particular the results thread that is created every March. Lots of folks put in their results, including their stats. There are two threads in March IIRC – a clean “results” thread, and then another with results, and stats, and explanation of what went well and what didn’t.
Also, you can click on any user name and then on their threads or responses to see if they have shared helpful info in other conversations.
So if someone says something like “omigosh my kid is JUST LOVING the science program at her school!” you can often track down that information by poking around a bit. Which isn’t to say you can’t just ask folks. (Some folks choose to be open on the public posts and some would prefer to share stuff like which school in DM, just FYI.) But I have found the rabbit hole of digging deeper into the comments of others to be 1. super informative and 2. really interesting and 3. a black hole that pulls me from things I actually need to get done in life.