Share your suggestions for evaluating schools without seeing them in person

If you are picking an out of state school, make sure your kid has quick access to two airports with direct flights to your town. This pandemic is an outlier but emergencies happen, you don’t want your teen to be stuck in a secluded place or worst overseas.

A college within 3- 6 hours drive from hometown is probably the best if it’s an option, it’s a long enough distance to learn to grow independently and short enough car/bus/train drive to home for emergencies. Also makes it easier to move belongings at the beginning and end of every semester.