I don’t know. To each his own I guess. We took 3 different trips with our D and each was wonderful. The 1st exploratory trip we took with DH we did 7 in-state colleges in 8 days. Frankly, doing even 2 schools in a day can be taxing especially if your kid wants to take advantage of an interview opportunity. I really can’t imagine doing 5 or 6 in 2 or 3 days even with luxury jets. It’s so much to process. We could just have simple tastes but we loved the road-trip, hitting some favorite cities and some places we’d never been. We liked the down time between schools to actually talk about them. The other two trips were plane trips after acceptances and we couldn’t afford the full family to attend. Still, each parent got some fun alone time with D. Looking forward to this with S in a couple years. If we could afford 80K for a college tour, I’m still not sure we’d do it in the manner described in the article. I guess it sorta made me sad to think that perhaps 2 or 3 days is all some people have for stuff like this.
I don’t begrudge people money. They aren’t hurting anyone by taking this route and they are paying lots of people in the process. I just don’t see the appeal of this particular method.