Colleges you have visited

It was fun to think about all the visits over the years:

Univ of Illinois
Univ of WI
Univ of MI
Notre Dame
Boston College
Harvard
UPenn
Colgate
West Point
Lehigh
Lafayette
Fordham
Holy Cross
Villanova
Marquette
Univ of Virginia
Northwestern

We’ve unofficially visited:
U of Chicago
Denison
Kenyon
Trinity
UVA

Attended Lafayette (undergrad) and Duquesne (law school)

Toured:

Alabama
Brown
Clemson (D 18 attended)
University of Delaware
University of Michigan
Princeton
Maryland
Miami of Ohio (D21 Attending)
Notre Dame
St. Louis University
Univeristy of Minnesota (law school)
Arizona State (law school)
University of Florida (law school D18 attending)
Vanderbilt
Virginia Tech
William & Mary
Georgetown
UVA
UNC Chapel Hill
Wake Forest
Lehigh
Lafayette
Allegheny College

For years I’ve been trying to come up with some sort of retirement job that would allow Salve Regina to employ me to live in the dorms. I have all sorts of plans for morning strolls along the cliff walk.

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Fun exercise. Twin '23 daughters trying to figure things out meant covering a looooooot of ground (most of it over the past year). My current count on live visits is 45, although it’s likely I’m forgetting a couple — and we’re outside of Boston, so I’m not counting all the ones in the area they’ve seen or even walked through but never really considered.

  1. Bard
  2. Bowdoin
  3. Bryn Mawr
  4. Bucknell
  5. Carleton
  6. Colby
  7. Colgate
  8. Connecticut College x2
  9. Dartmouth
  10. Dickinson x2
  11. Drexel
  12. Elon
  13. Franklin & Marshall x2
  14. Gettysburg x2
  15. Hamilton
  16. Haverford
  17. Hobart & William Smith
  18. Lafayette x2
  19. Lehigh
  20. Macalester
  21. Middlebury x2
  22. Mount Holyoke x3
  23. Muhlenberg
  24. Oberlin
  25. Penn
  26. Skidmore x2
  27. Smith
  28. St. Lawrence
  29. St. Olaf
  30. Swarthmore
  31. Trinity (CT)
  32. Tufts
  33. UCONN
  34. UNH
  35. UVM x2
  36. University of Richmond
  37. Union
  38. Ursinus
  39. Vassar x2
  40. Villanova
  41. Wake Forest
  42. Wesleyan
  43. Wheaton (MA)
  44. William & Mary
  45. Williams x2

D#1 admitted ED to Lafayette; D#2 still TBD.

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Visited with Ds20 and 22, some more than once:

Boston College
UMass Amherst
University of Connecticut
Central CT State
Trinity College
University of Rhode Island
Salve Regina University
Roger Williams
University of Vermont
Saint Michael’s College
University of Delaware
University of Maryland
American University
Hobart and William Smith
College of Charleston
James Madison
Roanoke
Flagler
Rutgers

I loved all of the trips, even to the ones they didn’t like in the end. Time together with so much hope and wonder and future ahead :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:.

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For tours/visits with my two kids…

UVA
William & Mary (2x)
Virginia Tech
James Madison
VCU
Christopher Newport
U of Mary Washington
Randolph-Macon College
U of Delaware
Georgetown
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Washington College
Susquehanna College
Juniata College
Allegheny College
Dickinson College
Mount Holyoke
SUNY ESF
Marist

Other visits for various events in the last decade or so…
UMD College Park (also attended for grad school)
George Mason
UC Davis
Cal Poly SLO (also attended for undergrad)
UCLA

And, long ago visited a bunch of UC and Cal States when my sister and I were looking at colleges

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Fun! let me bring some diversity into these lists heavy on Northern schools :wink:
With D22 formal tour () and/or diy tour while on road trips:
Tulane *
Loyola New Orleans
LSU

U of Louisiana - Lafayette
Louisiana Tech
Ole Miss
Rhodes*
Alabama
Auburn
UT Austin
Rice
Washington & Lee
George Washington
Georgetown
American*

Now, to get more “exotic”, these are colleges I either attended, played at as a D3 varsity athlete or visited friends at :grin:
Luther College
Wartburg College
Upper Iowa University
Simpson College
William Penn College
Coe College
Central College
Pensacola State College
University of Bonn
University of Cologne
University of Wuppertal
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Oxford

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This was in the late 1990’s with my two sons. A relatively short list.

Northeastern
Boston University (younger son attended)
Boston College
Penn
Cornell
McGill (older son attended)
U Toronto
UCLA
USC

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All schools (except one) we toured officially, but there are a few where DH and/or I are alums so our kids have been on the campuses several times unofficially too. Visits for D20 and S23:

American
Boston College
Bowdoin (DH an alum)
Brown (both grad alums)
Colgate
Cornell
Dickinson
Fordham
George Washington
Hamilton
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette
Lehigh (2X)
Northeastern
NYU
Skidmore
Syracuse
Trinity (CT)
Tufts (2X)
University of Maryland CP
U Penn (also an alum)
U Rochester
University of Virginia
Villanova (2X)
Wesleyan
WPI (unofficial through summer program)
Yale

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Wow! We toured comparatively few!

We Toured:

GW
Georgetown
U of Maryland - (main campus)
Emory (loved this campus)
Brandeis (hated this campus)
Tufts
Boston U

We did not tour UChicago, however, that is where my kid attends

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Using the original loose criteria of “toured/visited/spent time at” here’s my list. Not all were under consideration by my kids. These are relatively recent visits in the past few years:

UNC Chapel Hill
Duke
NC State
Appalachian State
UNC Wilmington
Guilford College
Elon
UNC Greensboro
Virginia Commonwealth University
Hollins
Roanoke
UNC Asheville
Warren Wilson
Agnes Scott
Trinity College Dublin
Ooo, forgot SCAD. We did the full tour there.

long ago visits:
Princeton
UCLA
William & Mary
East Carolina

I feel like I’m leaving some out, but they are not popping up for me just yet.

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Short and sweet:

Keene State
Penn
Princeton
Stanford
Swarthmore
University of Colorado - Boulder
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Wesleyan
Williams

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UVM
Tufts
Brandeis
Lawrence University WI
William and Mary
Mary Washington
Northeastern
UVA
Virginia Tech
UW Madison
MIT
Clark University
George Mason
Boston University
Smith
Ithaca

With two children

Goodness folks, some of you have put me to shame! A mere 47 :laughing:

Some of these were drive or walk-bys. Most weren’t official visits.
In no order whatsoever…

Bates
Binghamton
Bowdoin
Harvard
MIT
Boston University
Boston College
Tufts
Brandeis
Wesleyan
Swarthmore
Haverford
Lafayette
Franklin and Marshall
Dickinson
William and Mary
Goucher
Johns Hopkins
UVM
UNH
Ithaca
Cornell
Salve Regina
USC
U San Diego
CSU Long Beach
Lehigh
Connecticut College
U Conn
U Mass Amherst
Amherst College
Marist
Vassar
Skidmore
Hamilton
SUNY Geneseo
U Rochester
SUNY Cortland
Syracuse
Clark U
Penn State, University Park
West Point
Northeastern
Trinity College, CT
Brown

Exotic, as per another user:
Oxford U
Cambridge U

On their own, my kids visited a few colleges, through which I vicariously claim that I “visited”…
Carleton
Kenyon
Indiana U

ETA: I am looking through everyone else’s lists and have to keep editing mine because I forgot some of them!

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Oh wow, we did not visit very many for official tours. We thought there were several places both kids could thrive. Schools I have visited or been on the campus of:

Muhlenberg
Arcadia
Lafayette
Lehigh
Bucknell
F&M
Princeton
Ursinus
Harvard
Penn
Drexel
West Chester
Purdue
Susquehanna
Washington & Lee
Penn State
Towson State
US Naval Academy
Kutztown
Villanova
Haverford
Albright

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We’re from Tennessee. These were all formal visits:

WashU
Berkeley
Illinois-Champaign
UCLA
Smith
Amherst
Wake Forest
Elon
Duke
William and Mary
UVA
Columbia
Harvard
Davidson
Sewanee
Rhodes
Centre
Richmond
Washington & Lee
George Washington
Johns Hopkins
American University

DS rebelled, said “I’ve been to them all with my sister and don’t want to see any more schools.” He went to a few by himself, but not many.

Both ended up at Wake Forest.

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Well college lists are the nature of research oriented CC parents, sometimes long lists. But out in the real world, most families I think visit few campuses (if any).

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It’s been a long time since my DD and DS were in the college hunt, but I still like to drive by colleges while on vacation. My list so far:

Yale
Emory
University of Chicago
Illinois Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman
Iowa State University
Centre College
Tulane
Williams
WPI
Holy Cross
Harvard
MIT
Emerson
Boston University
Michigan State
Carleton
St. Olaf
Hamline
University of Minnesota
Missouri S&T
Montana State
Stevens Institute of Technology
Princeton
Vassar
Skidmore
RPI
RIT
Union
Hamilton
Duke
Davidson
Ohio State
Penn
Allegheny
Drexel
Lehigh
Sewanee
Rhodes
Rice
University of Houston
TSU
University of St Thomas
Sam Houston
Stephen F Austin
University of North Texas
University of Texas - Dallas
SMU
Austin College
Baylor
Southwestern
University of Texas
William & Mary
Georgetown
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin

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Amherst (2)
Smith
UMass Amherst
Williams (2)
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Yale (2)
Dartmouth
Brown (2)
Harvard
Boston University
MIT (2)
Northeastern
Tufts (2)
Georgetown (2)
Emory
Rice
Haverford
Bryn Mawr
Swarthmore
UPenn
Columbia (2)
NYU
Pomona
Claremont McKeena
UCLA
Berkeley (2)
Stanford
UOregon
Oregon State University
Lewis and Clark
Reed
Whitman
UW

35 school visits, 3 kids. We are in Pacific Northwest. I listed a few schools that we visited twice above- it’s amazing how different the impressions were (!) Weather, tour guide, how long you have been doing a visit, what you are wearing, etc., etc….

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