Thought I would follow up to my post (#8).
The AO from the college that blew the kids off has evidently scheduled another visit. It is coming up, but at a different time of the day, so DD is not free during that period. The students are allowed to miss two classes a year to attend these sessions, but DD has chosen not to. She isn’t holding it against the college, but she sometimes finds it difficult - or just a plain hassle - to catch up/make up the work.
This college was “not in her top 10” as she described it, however, she may have softened her stance to write it off completely. It turns out she went to ANOTHER college’s information session, and whatever they said, she wasn’t sold on that one either. But on some level she realized that at some point she is going to have to find some princes among the frogs.
I have been encouraging her to attend some of these lunch time info sessions precicely so she can discover some colleges on her own that she might like to tour or otherwise explore further. In that spirit, I respect whatever opinions she forms. The number of colleges that do these lunch visits to her high school (and especially the ones that happen to hit during her lunch period) is a drop in the bucket to the number of excellent schools out there. Paring the list has to happen sooner or later anyway.