My oldest was a slow decision maker. So spring of sophomore year we visited a big state school in a college town; a small school in a college town (phew…both in the same town), city school, and drove past a suburban school (we got close and said no). He figured out he wanted city school…maybe college town…and bigger rather than smaller schools. That made it much easier to look junior year (he was a three sport athlete so he had little time to get away to look).