<p>I live in MA, and although some of the schools on my list are within commuter rail distance, many aren't. I want to visit Caltech's preview program. I want to attend the university of michigan's engineering seminars. I'd like to visit Rochester U and Cornell, both in New York but two hours away from each other. I want to see if life at Deep Springs would actually be bearable for two whole years. I want to visit case western.</p>
<p>Except it's highly impractical to visit California, Michigan, New York, Nevada, and Ohio all in one summer, most of them for little more than two hour information sessions. How do you guys go about visiting colleges?</p>
<p>My daughter and I have been spending vacations visiting colleges. Last summer we took a 3-week road trip along the east coast. For those colleges you can't visit, you might try checking Collegiate Choice. They video the admissions tour. It's not the best quality video, but it is honest. You might also try contacting current students through livejournal communities.</p>
<p>fireflyscout,</p>
<p>You must have a wonderful relationship with your daughter! Though there is a lot of love between me and my kids, I can't imagine spending that much time in a car with any one of them! I am impressed! :)</p>
<p>Seriously, though, was there any sense of burnout when seeing that many schools in a stretch? Any recommendations about that? DH is taking S2 in July for about a week! Think he will survive it!</p>
<p>Actually, there were two other people in the car - my mother (yikes!) and a friend of my daughter's (aka "the buffer"). We toured 10 colleges over 21 days, so we didn't get burned out, and there were a LOT of interesting non-college stops along the way. </p>
<p>Headphones and personal CD players help.</p>