<p>I kinda like your strategy, wish-it-were-april (I kinda wish your user name was shorter though!) - and in fact, although we did not follow this strategy to a T (we did do some college visits and interviewing bedorehand) he did not interview or visit five of the seven schools he eventually applied to. Of the two (both reaches) he did visit and interview with, one rejected him, the other WL then eventually accepted him. He got into the other 5 colleges with lots of merit aid, visited three of them in April, and chose the one he'd been most lukewarm about (cold winters). That school, by the way, was the only one that had come up as a Match when he took the Princeton Review Profile. And he loves his school. Ironic...</p>