Visit Colleges Before or After Acceptance?

intparent
Thu, 26 Feb 2015 04:28:22 +0000

We did a lot of visits, but we started at the end of sophomore year. We wove visits into other vacations a lot of time. Older kid has spring semester internship in DC? Fly there and spend half the week visiting her and half the week visiting colleges. In the summer, picking kid up from Quiz Bowl camp in Illinois and headed for grandparents in Michigan? Stop at U of Chicago and Kenyon along the way. Four day weekend in the fall? Fly to Oregon, visit relatives and check out Whitman & Reed. Kid at summer program in Reno (so her plane ticket already a sunk cost)? Pick her up and swing through California schools. Day off from school? Hit local LAC.

Some families can’t afford to visit, and you have to make do if you can’t, of course.