<p>GWU / American (with Georgetown on a different day) - our hotel was right at GWU
Bryn Mawr / Haverford
Tufts / Brandeis
Wellesley / Clark (involved high-tailing it to an afternoon session at Clark, but do-able)
Smith / Mt Holyoke
Case Western / Kenyon (this one was the most rushed - we stayed near Case and got there very first thing)
We would have also done Carleton / Macalester on the same day, but it didn’t work out.</p>
<p>I don’t see what’s the big deal at all. If you don’t live near these colleges, you need to pack a lot into your day. </p>
<p>You get there early and either drive or walk around the town and the college to get your bearings and see the surroundings, you go on the first tour / info session … You make sure to hit the student center, get the vibe, pick up on a couple of student newspapers and check out what’s posted … Frankly, unless you’re an athlete, I don’t see the need to tour sports facilities. And while my kids did sit on classes at a few places, that really doesn’t add much information to the whole thing, IMO.</p>
<p>While I think NU / U of Chicago is a lot in one day (because it’s not easy to get from one campus to the other - it’s a solid hour no matter whether you go El, car, or taxi), it’s likely doable with the right planning.</p>
<p>JHS – I think it was the alacrity at which DH and S went through Ontario (without stopping for food, since it was Passover and they had stocked the car with KFP food) was what surprised them! DH has taken that route twice – once from Chicago to Cambridge, and then Ann Arbor to Ithaca. It <em>is</em> a route that requires advance planning, however, since passports are now required.</p>
<p>mathmom, I noticed that S2 liked the afternoon schools better than the morning ones, too.</p>
<p>Agree that American/GW/Georgetown (pick two) are definitely doable in one day. JHU/UMCP is a bit more dicey, as there is I-95 and heavy local traffic to contend with. S2 was born at Georgetown, but had the sense not to mention that in his app. :)</p>
<p>We also did several 2/days: RPI/Syracuse, RIT/Cornell, BU/Tufts and WPI/UMass-Amherst. We were also going to do MD/JHU and Penn/Del, but a blizzard got in the way last year. In bigger cities it’s very doable and even with 45-60 minute drives it generally works, as you aren’t up against rush hour. I agree with the poster that noted you will see the same faces - we did on the NY State trip, as it was over the NJ November teachers convention and everyone was from NJ.</p>
<p>One of the issues is how a school schedules its official “visits.” Many will schedule activities betwen 10 am and 2 pm, so it’s hard to fit in two. We did an unofficial vist to a school that was sort of on the way to another school…D could tell by walking around that it wasnt her kind of place.</p>
<p>We also visited two urban schools that each had two campuses. It took the whole day to visit both campuses.</p>
<p>Brandeis in particular was <em>very</em> conscious of the fact that the students were often doing it and another college on the same day – they handed out very clear and concise directions from their campus to basically every major campus in the Boston area, and we saw a lot of the same faces on our Tufts / Brandeis day and even a few at the Wellesley day the next day. </p>
<p>I liked Brandeis’ straightforward acknowledgment. It said “we know you’re checking us out, we’re not afraid of the competition, we don’t have to pretend they don’t exist.”</p>
<p>Has anyone done Caltech and Harvey Mudd in one day? On the map, and from the Internet sites, it looks very doable, but there may be something I don’t know. We are thinking about doing that sometime this June.</p>
<p>Yes – that was another 2/1 we did (now that I have thought about it). Caltech and Mudd are easy to do in one day. It’s about a 30 minute drive from Pasadena to Claremont, 45 minutes in traffic. I highly recommend ■■■■■■■■ the departments at both schools. Our experiences at each were very telling.</p>
I’d love to hear it–we’re doing a trip in two weeks–Amherst area, Boston, Providence, Middletown, and (maybe) Princeton. (Theoretically also Philly, but I predict we will run out of steam and come home.)</p>