Or are your dc all settled on their final list and burned out with looking? DD has a good list but there are still a few last minute schools that we plan to look at locally going into the first week of November. We ended up seeing a lot more schools than I thought we would. I’ve liked it from a bonding perspective but won’t claim to be sad when it’s over! 
Mine are graduates now, but the last tour D1 and I took was early November and that college became her clear first choice. And mine. So, not to worry.
D19 had a tight list of schools she wanted to tour so we are done and she has completed 3 our 5 applications.
However, starting August before Junior year, S14 toured schools from Massachusetts to Texas … and I think we hit everything in between! Then, right before Christmas break his Senior year, he applied to one more college site-unseen. He was accepted in February, we toured and that’s where he ended up.
Mine graduated last year but we did a number of second and third visits during her senior year.
still looking. A little panicky about “demonstrated interest”.
I’m tired of looking because the only schools she is interested in are reaches and far reaches at that. IMO she could stay local and do just fine I’m not a big believer in schools making a huge difference in “career outcomes” unless you are going into certain careers and even then requires a certain type of student to take advantage of what is offered.
With that said we will probably just see local schools in Texas and maybe Furman or Elon and that is it.
With how competitive everything has become these days if you don’t have a hook the average (3.8UW 32 ACT ORM) doesn’t have a huge chance at most top 40-100 schools let alone better ones. The only hook she has per one adcom is very small town 25k people.
Still looking. We have visited everything from tiny northeastern schools to city schools to southern schools in the middle of nowhere and she still has no idea what she wants. We are doing a visit this weekend then probably 1-2 more after that. We started the summer before junior year - I thought it was great to start early so we would be done by now but clearly that did not work!
We toured during senior year. My son was more invested in the process as a senior, and he had a better idea of what he wanted to study.
We toured senior year, including visits to the top 3 after acceptances were received.
There is something very “real” about touring a university after you have an acceptance in hand with a financial offer that you are fine with. The student knows that they really can start here in September if they decide that they want to do so.
I am glad that the tours are over, but sort of miss them also.
DD’17 toured four schools and they were July-October of senior year. She knew at the 3rd tour, in September, she had found the one, but we still went on the 4th tour because it was my alma mater and I wanted to go. We had another one planned but she did not want to get up early and drive 3 hours when she already knew where she wanted to go.
DD’19 has been on 3 tours I think and I doubt she goes to any of those. She wants to tour 2-3 more. She doesn’t have a lot of choices due to budget, preferred major, and preferred travel time. We have one scheduled for next week and I’ll wait until after that one to see if we need to do the others. It checks all of her boxes except “a school that no one from our high school goes to.” I’m hoping she gets over that prejudice and likes the visit so we don’t have to continue driving all over the countryside just because she thinks one directional public sounds more exotic than the other.
Oldest son graduated HS last year, but we were still going on tours in September. We’d scheduled the tours months in advance, so couldn’t have known but two of them happened about a week after we were raked by Hurricane Irma. The irony was that the first college we were going to was Rice in Houston, which had been flooded by Hurricane Harvey less than a month before that. We were grateful to be in Houston, though, because our hotel had AC and hot water, which we hadn’t had for about a week by that time.
The tours in September were nice. Classes were in session so gave a more realistic taste of the campus than the summer tours, but it was still early enough that DS had time to work on his apps.
My younger son looked at three colleges Labor Day weekend when he was applying and visited one college for the first time in April after he was accepted. It was much further away than the other ones and such a long shot he didn’t actually think he’d get in.
Older son didn’t get into any of the colleges he visited except one he’d seen at reunions and thought he didn’t like that much. He visited four colleges in April - liked the reunion college much more than he thought he would, but ended up somewhere else. He did not care at all about location or size, but in the end the nerdy vibe was important and not something he’d picked up on with the earlier tours (except at Caltech - which both my kids loved.)
Heading out in 2 weeks to see 2 schools on the East Coast. That will be it unless D needs to visit for scholarship interviews/days.
We visited right up until Thanksgiving! And while I wouldn’t start the process that late, the thinking around what mattered got clearer as the year progressed. And you can interview at the same time if it’s a school that does that.
S19 and I visited several this summer. Based on those, he realized he likes small schools and maybe a LAC. So that changed up his list and put one on his radar. We are going up to see it this fall. Either DH will take him over fall break or I’ll take him out of school a day to go.
Last year, D18 refused to deal with the process. After she was admitted (rolling), we toured one in early Nov. She hated it and filled out some new apps. She ended up choosing one just by loving the city and her sis lives there. She did not set foot on campus until orientation. Thankfully she loves it so far.
No! 
We managed to bang out the last two before school started. It was a pleasant surprise to be finished before school started. Kiddo is applying for a special program at one school and they do an invitation/interview day for that program. Not sure if he’ll get the invite, but if he does, we will try our best to go there (He’s already visited). We did say he can do accepted student days at a couple schools if he’s having trouble deciding in the spring.
We have 1 to 3 to still see before apps. All are day trips. At least 2 schools on the list will be applied to without seeing due to distance and cost.
So far, applied to 3 with plans of applying to 3 to 7 more. And, taking one more shot at ACT.
My kids toured the out-of-state schools in the spring after admissions results were in.
We are going to try to make it to Clarkson and Stevens, and especially Clarkson as they value demonstrated interest from what I can tell.
We did some initial visits in Sept and Oct of senior year. It was helpful because he knew more about what he wanted in a college than he did junior year. Some of the schools had weekend open houses in the Fall which were very convenient. And he did revisits after acceptances.