So, if you apply to say 7 schools, how many schools do you visit? 20? That’s 20 school days that the kid is going to miss. May be 10 comes from school vacations when college is open. I will ask the school how they handle this. I don’t mind the parents’ time or the expenses, but missing school to visit colleges seems wrong.
On the other hand if the kid applies to 7 and gets into say 4, only couple schools need to be visited as the bottom 50% wouldn’t even matter. That’s missing 2 school days. Just sounds more efficient to me.