My daughter has not been accepted to Syracuse yet but we have registered for ‘Orange Preview’ there April 6th. For some reason a lot of tours at Syracuse don’t include the dorms. ‘Orange preview’ does. It’s 3.5 hours away. I was going to take her on a visit in August but both my parents got sick and we couldn’t leave. We wanted to go in the fall but then my mom continued to get worse and died around Thanksgiving. Bottom line: through no fault of our own, one of my daughter’s top choices is a school she has never seen. ‘Orange preview’ happens to coincide with spring break. We are going to need to book a hotel. Decisions come out around April 1. There was no other logical way to plan it. Obviously we aren’t going to commit to a school none of us has ever visited. How could seeing that she is signed up for a tour for after decisions come out (but before we have been accepted) be viewed as a negative by admissions? Any time you visit campus it should be viewed as a positive. It means you are seriously considering that school. And yep! If she gets rejected, we will simply cancel our plans. Far easier to cancel than to scramble at the last minute. This is a HUGE investment. You are the consumer. You and your child owe it to yourselves to make as informed a decision as possible.