Here’s the list of colleges I have toured/visited/spent time at. 80. How many are on your list? (In fairness, I toured with three kids and have a job that takes me to college campuses for workshops.)
My spouse did most of the college touring with our 3.
My list includes:
Amherst
U Conn
Dartmouth
Tufts
Bates
Skidmore
Harvard
Yale
Brown
Emory
Washington and Lee
University of Rochester
Vassar
Connecticut College
Middlebury
Williams
Stanford
SMU
Bates
Berklee
Bethany College
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon
Catholic University
Central Connecticut State University
Chapman
Claremont McKenna
Colby
College of Charleston
Connecticut College
Cornell
Dartmouth
Drew
Duquesne
Eastern Connecticut State University
Fairleigh Dickinson
Harvard
Keene State
Kent State
New England Conservatory
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Ohio University
Peabody Conservatory
Pepperdine
Plymouth State
Princeton
Santa Clara University
Salve Regina
Skidmore
Southern Connecticut State University
Southern Methodist University
Stanford
The Ohio State University
Trinity (Hartford)
University of Hartford
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
University of North Carolina Greensboro
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
University of North Texas
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Rhode Island
University of San Diego
University of South Carolina
Western Illinois University
Yale
My list was longer than I expected: 26, have another tour scheduled with S23 next month (Northeastern), then however many we’ll visit with S24.
Pittsburg (KS) State University
OU (Oklahoma University)
Tulsa University
Baylor
Case Western Reserve
Cornell
MIT
Harvard
Brown
Wells (NY, Does this college still exist?!)
Syracuse
University of Rochester
Northwestern
Ball State
Purdue
Binghamton
Duke
Wheaton (IL)
Boston University
Wheaton (MA)
WPI
UMass Lowell
Clark University
Boston College
UIUC
Auburn
Binghamton
Colorado State
Iowa State
Kansas State
Mississippi State
Schreiner University
SMU
SUNY Buffalo
Texas Lutheran
Texas Tech
University of Texas
University of Houston
University of Houston Clear Lake
University of Virginia
That is an incredible list and I suppose these visits took over the course of many years!! Many of those campuses make the various lists of being among the most beautiful campuses. The buildings at Salve Regina are quite impressive in pictures.
Amherst
Boston College
Brandeis
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Northwestern
NotreDame
Princeton
Smith
Swarthmore
Tufts
UChicago
UNC-CH
UPenn
Uof Richmond
UVA
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Virginia Tech
Wake
Washington &Lee
WashU St Louis
Williams
William &Mary
Yale
University of Michigan*
Eastern Michigan
Harvard*
MIT
Wesleyan
USC
UCLA
ASU*
U of AZ
West Point
*Formally toured or attended. I’ve seen more boarding schools than colleges. Our son didn’t see the point of tours, all he cared about was the program, nothing about a campus/culture was relevant to him.
College visits I can recall (for our 2 kids, including visits while on vacation in area). Some with whole family, others with just parent(s)
(+) more than once
(-) no tour, just drive or walk on own
American
Amhurst
Cal Tech
Carnegie Mellon
Clarkson
Case
Cornell
CO School of Mines +
CSU Fort Collins
CU Boulder +
Harvey Mudd
MIT +
Northeastern +
Olin
Pomona
RPI
SUNY Albany -
SUNY Binghampton -
Tufts
Vassar - / Marist -
Stanford
UC Berkley
Occidental
Pepperdine
Loyola Marymount
UC San Diego
Cal Poly SLO
Loyola New Orleans
Tulane
Manhattan College
Ohio Wesleyan
La Verne
Univ of Washington
Seattle U
Univ of Portland
Portland St
Lewis and Clark
Willamette
Western Washington
Gonzaga
Santa Clara
Arizona St
Boston College
Boston U
Northeastern
Harvard
Rutgers + beautiful Honors College dorm
Denison
Lafayette
Lehigh (no tour due to Covid)
Clemson (could not get formal tour)
Wake Forest (no formal tour)
U of Illinois (Go Illini!)
Syracuse (Go Orange!)
Elon
Georgetown
U of Delaware (no tour due to Covid)
SUNY Albany
Dickinson (no tour)
Villanova
James Madison University (food bearing robots!)
U of Virginia (no tour)
U of North Carolina - CH (no tour)
Columbia
Babson College 2x
Bentley U 2x
Boston College
Boston U 2x
Brandeis
Brynn Mawr
Dickinson
Franklin & Marshall
Mount Holyoke
Northeastern
Sarah Lawrence
Smith
Vassar
Villanova
Wellesley x2
All done with info session and tour. Exhausted and broke after doing them.
2 kids - one an athletic recruit. All in person tours and info sessions - divide and conquer with my spouse. Most schools visited for 1 or the other - minimal cross over.
USC
UCLA
Chapman
LMU
Pomona
Santa Clara
Stanford
Cal Poly SLO
Univ of Wash
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Vassar
BU
Northeastern
Princeton
Columbia
Barnard
Penn
Harvard
Carleton
Kenyon
Oberlin
College of Wooster
Univ of Vermont
Grinnell
Online sessions due to Covid travel restrictions:
Cornell
Middlebury
Brown
Yale
Official tours for my 2:
Central College (Iowa)
Concordia University- Nebraska
Des Moines Area Community College
Grand View University (Iowa)
Northwest Missouri State University
University of Central Arkansas