And to be clear, each kid visited 13 schools (which means younger one got dragged to more than 13, but not to all the 13 that older s visited.
It’s interesting that one poster’s child liked info sessions but not tours. Our family was the reverse. We have truly enjoyed every tour we have been on so far and found them very useful-- but have stopped scheduling info sessions, because while a couple had students speak or otherwise had something original, most of them did not teach us a single thing we had not already learned from the website, brochure, catalog, etc.
We look forward to more tours, but no more info sessions!
I think that, if your children are not enjoying college visits, maybe they are not ready for them yet. I know my son wasn’t ready to really embrace the college search process until August before junior year. Then he got into it. Your twins are young yet, so they have plenty of time.
I can send you a ton of wonderful things to do in Pittsburgh…if you would like.
@Otterma yes, our college visits have been a reflection of my son’s personality. He is very laid back and easy to please and making any decision is very stressful for him. I think it will serve him well in that as long as a school meets a couple of his requirements (majors, access to golf, opportunites for outdoor activities) he will make the most of all other aspects. At least that is what we are hoping. I still think the tours have been a help in that he is getting excited about the opportunities to come.
We started in 10th grade and combined them with vacations. We visited about 20 schools in total and indulged in our passion for BBQ. The best ones (meaning best fit) percolated to the top. After awhile the speeches sounded the same “Take all AP’s and get all A’s”, but there was a huge variance in the quality of admission presentation. Tours ranged from an afterthought (Cal), haughty (Princeton), boring and sleep-inducing (Columbia), and tense (MIT). GT and Michigan let their facilities and projects speak for themselves (solar planes, submarines, wild looking drones built by students). I have never seen so many amazing athletic facilities in my life.
Our best visit was at Alabama where we met personally with the university president and the dean of engineering.
I really appreciated how honest and straightforward most of the people were and how much they cared for the students. The ‘we are so great that everyone wants to come here’ speeches got old fairly quickly.
Here is my opinion. Sophomore year is a great time to look at different types of universities ie. privates, publics, rural, suburban, urban, etc. It is not a good time to be visiting universities for the sake of determining where one might want to matriculate. There are too many things that are unknown such as final grades, test scores etc. The student might very well change many of the parameters they have created or simply not know what those parameters might be in their sophomore year. By the summer before your junior year you may have a better idea but questions surrounding grades and test scores may still be a bit murky. Then things happen quickly. By 2nd semester junior year the student will likely have the first of their test scores back and have completed 5 of 6 semesters that will be seriously looked at by colleges. Hopefully by then the student will have a better idea of what parameters they have for a school such as type, size, distance, locality etc. It will be much easier to narrow down choices once those decisions have been made and your visits can be more useful. Much of what is important in choosing a college can be done from a computer such as majors, size, location, financial aid, scholarships, stats of students etc. The only thing a visit can really nail down is how does the university and the area feel to the student. It can be a game changer so I won’t minimize it’s importance but visiting a bunch of highly ranked schools will likely not achieve much. In my opinion 
I don’t believe I said my kids are not enjoying them. I have no idea where you got that idea.
My apologies. When I returned to this thread after my first post, I appear to have confused your post with another in which the kids were expressing reluctance to tour. Best wishes for an enjoyable experience.