I don’t know if I can remember them all. Roughly in historical order of first visit
Hampton University
NC A&T
NC Central University
Duke U
Howard University
Bennett College
Winston Salem State University
Johnson C Smith University
St Augustines University
Shaw University
Coppin State
Morgan State U
UNC
NCSU
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard
Spelman
Morehouse
Clark Atlanta U
Old Dominion U
John Hopkins U
Norfolk State
Virginia State
Fayetteville State U
Virginia Union
Peace College
Meredith College
Wake Forest U
Elon
U of Richmond
UNC Greensboro
Campbell U
George Washington U
American U
Georgetown U
UNC Wilmington
Catholic University of America
VCU
Appalachian State U
UNC Charlotte
ECU
Elizabeth City State U
Randolph-Macon College
Queens College
University of Dayton
the Ohio State University (the previous last new-to-me visit)
Davidson College (actual last new-to-me visit when I took my son on NYEve for a DC vs UD basketball game. We went early to see the place. Beautiful campus!)
There are probably at least a dozen I’ve omitted. Always great to meet a new campus.
Fun to go back and reflect on this! We only have one ds. We had 14 official visits and 5 just walking around visits. Ds applied to 11 schools, two of which we had not visited. Results were 9 acceptances, 1 waitlist, 1 rejection. He attended Stanford.
Official visits/tours:
American University
University of Arkansas
Belmont University
Claremont McKenna College
Duke
Georgetown
Harvey Mudd
Hendrix College
University of MIssissippi
Pomona College
Rice
Stanford
Vanderbilt
WashU
In some cases, the tours were Dad-led as we went for reunions or I have an appointment at the school so didn’t really need a guide. ShawSon visited almost no schools by choice (he didn’t want to fall in love with schools that had a 10% chance of admitting him) and ShawD looked almost exclusively in Canada.
Harvard
Princeton
Amherst
Rochester
Wesleyan
Stanford
Brown
Queens University
McGill
University of Toronto
Acadia University
Mount Allison University
Dalhousie
Kings’ College
A couple of other Canadian schools that I can’t remember.
New College (in Florida, in case there is another one).
Boston College
University of British Columbia
UC - Berkeley
UCLA
CalTech
Carnegie Mellon
University of Central Florida
Columbia U
University of Florida
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
University of Massachusetts
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Northeastern U
Olin
University of Pennsylvania
Pomona
Princeton
Santa Clara U
Stanford
University of Toronto
Queens U
Toronto Metropolitan U
University of Waterloo
Wellesley
Western U
I think that’s 27. About 2/3 of these were for kids’ college visits.
I’ve lived in a whole bunch of places, as have my relatives. So, about 10 of the visits were “college visits” with 2 kids in a day trip that we could do in half a day or less from home or that coincided with visiting family. 10 schools were attended or employed or visited due to work. Only 7 were trips solely for college visits that required long drives or flights. I’m adding one more to the last category next week, Indiana U. I forgot Amherst (BIL’s graduation).
3 Kids Almost all tours, a few virtual or drive through due to Covid. Thought we were around 30 realized it’s 40. Might be missing a few…who knows?
Clemson
Coastal Carolina
De Sales
Duke
East Carolina
Florida Gulf Coast
Florida Southern
Florida Tech
George Mason
James Madison
Lehigh
Loyola Marymount
Marymount Manhattan
Montclair
NJIT
Old Dominion
Pace
Princeton
Roanoke
Rowan
Rutgers
St Johns University
St. Josephs University
Stevens
The College of New Jersey
Towson
University of Central Florida
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of North Florida
University of Richmond
University of South Carolina
USC
University of South Florida
University of Tampa
University of Tennessee
University of West Florida
Villanova
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Tech
3 kids
Syracuse
Buffalo State
University of Buffalo
MCLA
Hartwick
Ithaca
Marymount Manhattan College
Manhattan School of Music
Fordham
Columbia College of Chicago
North Central College
University of Rhode Island
SUNY New Paltz
Sage College
College of St Rose
Siena College
RPI
University at Albany
Canisus College
Oswego State
Oneonta State
Plattsburgh
UVM
Nichols College
Champlain College
Union College
Skidmore
Rice University
1st child chose MCLA and transferred to Buffalo State, 2nd chose Syracuse and 3rd is a junior.
Syracuse
Hamilton
Colgate
NYU
Fordham
Siena
Marist
Fairfield U
Northeastern
BU
American
GW
Bucknell
UVA
College of Charleston
High Point
Elon
Colorado College
LMU
Pepperdine
ASU
U of A
Baylor
TCU
SMU