<p>If you plan to fly, it helps to pick schools within an hour of a major airport, to minimize connections going and coming, and adding long hours of bus travel to transport time. Hotchkiss is a great school that is famously difficult to get to with public transportation, for example, so the kids depend on scheduled shuttle buses taking hours from campus to airports for major vacations, and have few options for a weekend get away. </p>
<p>Loomis Chafee, in contrast, is very convenient (right outside Hartford Conn.), 5 minutes from airport with shuttle service 24/7.</p>