<p>Great thread! Here is my story so far.
Our older D attends a good state college, her pretty much one and only choice, and is very happy with it. The younger expressed interest in a small school on the West coast, so last spring we went on a LAC tour of the West. She liked a couple of places, hated a couple, and fell in love with one. This summer, she went to a camp on the East coast, and decided that she should give the East a serious look. Well, she found a couple of no-school days in her fall schedule that, combined with the weekend in the middle, would give us a decent time window to visit several colleges. She called and scheduled some interviews, and I started planning our trip. You know, tickets, car, hotels all that mundane stuff that costs money. She was so excited that she called her boyfriend and told him about the upcoming trip. BF got upset because he had planned a special surprise date for them to go on the same weekend! I talked to the kid (nice young man), and turns out, he bought some crazily expensive tickets to some ballet or opera for them to go to! A lot of flipped burgers worth! May be his entire savings were put into this! I felt so sorry for the kid, I had to re-do the entire itinerary! Luckily, I had not bought the airfare - that would have been expensive to change! So, now instead of the grand tour of the East, we will be flying red-eye, visiting a couple of places and going back the next evening. D has to deal with rescheduling her interviews with some local alumni, since Im not going to spend money on another grand tour like that! H “had no comment”.</p>