<p>There's a school that has just come onto my D's radar and I would like her to visit and interview. However, I'm pulling her out a few times in the next few weeks to look at other schools, and I'm thinking it might be better to wait till she's got a day off in early November (NJ teachers' convention) to see this new one. Are we pushing it a little too late, though? At that point, should she have seen all she's going to see?</p>
<p>It is not too late to visit another school, as long as she has a list of colleges and applications in progress. She can ultimately add this school to her list if she likes it. </p>
<p>Your child’s high school may have deadlines for submitting application paperwork to them that are many weeks before the college’s own deadline. So the prudent thing for your daughter to do would be to get started on this new application, particularly the parts that involve her high school – like requests for transcripts and recommendations.</p>
<p>If her visit to the college leads her to change her mind about it, she can always withdraw (or not finish) her application or simply say no if she is admitted.</p>
<p>When the RD deadline? I would go ahead with applying to colleges on her current list and if she wants to apply to one more, it’s not so daunting. FWIW, we did not visit all the schools on D’s list. It was too expensive to go across country for us. If D gets in, then she will visit.</p>
<p>It’s not too late. You might want to have the teacher and GC recommendations for it in place, depending on what their deadlines are, even if she ultimately decides it’s not for her. </p>
<p>My older son went on college visits spring junior year and then said he didn’t want to visit any more until he’d seen where he got in. As far as he was concerned they were all fine and he just wanted the best comp sci program he could find. Ironically he got into colleges he hadn’t visited and didn’t get into the ones he had visited!</p>
<p>Go for it. There is a reason application deadlines are when they are and everyone has to wait for all applications to be in before decisions are made (rolling admissions schools leave enough openings for those last minute applications). </p>
<p>Thanks, all!</p>
<p>not too late. Also in NJ and used that week with both kids Junior year and saw even mix of Jr/Sr. (older one applied in October to a rolling admission school, so she was done by the break her Senior year). We are using the break this year to visit a few schools that are on the list, but we just haven’t gotten too. </p>
<p>If you cannot get the tour in, worse case scenario your child can apply and then go visit if they get in.</p>
<p>My kid visited few schools after she was accepted.</p>
<p>Not too late at all. As long as applications are still being accepted you are fine. And she can also want and visit after an application is filed.</p>
<p>My DS1 added a school to his list in mid-December. We didn’t have time to visit before apps were due, so he applied blind with the agreement that we’d visit if he got in (it was a reach). He did get in, visited and loved it, and is now a senior there. So… no, November is not too late. GL to your daughter.</p>
<p>The college wasn’t much on our radar; it was the GC who was pushing it. D1 didn’t do much research on it, didn’t set foot on campus until early November, instantly “knew” and interviewed while there. Four very happy and productive years. </p>
<p>Be sure you can afford it, run NPCs. </p>
<p>The visit can come later.</p>