<p>Already- I'll send you a pm (I don't want to hi-jack the thread).</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>dbwes,</p>
<p>Re: Butler</p>
<p>We were staying in the area so did our own "walking tour" of the physical campus. It is set in a very nice residential area - probably about 5 miles from downtown Indianapolis. Beautiful campus - the buildings, the landscape - most of the buildings were older, but seemed well kept. Stately. My son who is a sports nut fell in love with Hinkle - the basketball arena. Was able to browse the Student Union area/cafeteria a little. Did NOT get a good sense of dorms - the campus was dead (Sat. July 5) Nicely walkable - not too small, not too big. The area around it was quite nice, though I didn't see stores-restaurants bordering campus - but everything you could ever want within a couple of miles.</p>
<p>I'm sure it will be in my sons mind when he's comparing other schools!</p>
<p>Doing a long casual weekend just mom and soon to be junior and doing the lake circle tour: Kalamazoo (nostalgia for me more than for son 2), University of Chicago (again nostalgia for me not for son), Lake Forest, Carthage and Belot in August. In fall taking a driving color tour to Vermont, NH and Maine...list of stops is undecided only for sure stop will be Colby for my H more than for my son #2. Son #2 will gladly follow Son #1to Colorado so this is more drives so he can see something other than Son 1's school. Eckerd is on his list - but I can wait 'til the snow flies and for a long Florida weekend LOL.</p>
<p>We did day trips to Brown and Williams this summer, hoping to hit Lafayette and Lehigh later in August. D assures me she will have time to visit a few in Virginia as well, while working, traveling, doing prep work for 4 AP's and completing all her applications before school starts! Maybe little woodland creatures will come through her bedroom window and help her get it all done.</p>
<p>Our mother/daughter road trips:
in June we tackled Austin College, Southwestern U and Trinity U. Liked them all as a matter of fact.
later this month we head up north and will driveby Bucknell and visit Lafayette, Susquehanna, Dickinson & Franklin & Marshall. We'll also be visiting friends from NJersey where we lived before we moved to Texas 7 years ago.</p>
<p>Jerseymom, I used to live in Jacksonville, near Jacksonville University. There were tons of kids from NJ/NY there, so your D would have lots of company in Florida if things are still as they were. :-)</p>
<p>Son interviewed at William & Mary -- it was his fourth trip to the school -- two were school-related things. We did tours last summer of Wake Forest and Duke. Previously went to McDaniel and Franklin & Marshall when he was a sophomore. Been to the U. of Richmond twice. Went to the U. of Rochester when he was a sophomore. He would like to see Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Washington U. Don't think we'll get to those before the end of the summer.</p>
<p>UCLA, UCSB, Cal State Monterey Bay, UCSC, Berkeley, Stanford, Sac State, UC Merced, Humboldt, Oregon State, University of Oregon, Willamette, Reed, U of Wash., and Seattle University.....all done the summer before son's senior year. He thought that he wanted to stay on the West Coast. However, he was accepted at Princeton, we went for Preview in April and fell in love with the place. Princeton is the perfect fit for him!</p>
<p>S2 visited CMC and Reed when we were out west on vacation over the past two years and checking out schools for S1. DH will be taking S2 on a trip in early August -- Bowdoin, Bates or Colby, Tufts, Brandeis, Middlebury, Williams, Brown, Dartmouth. </p>
<p>I will be doing a couple of schools closer to home with him -- St. Mary's/MD, St. John's/Annapolis, Georgetown, W&M, Haverford, Swat. He has been to the flagship many times.</p>
<p>Will probably also look at Pomona and Pitzer, as well as UChicago (he can shack up with big brother). He'd like to see Cornell, though I'm not sure what it holds for him. Don't know that I can interest him in any of the great midwestern LACs (he likes to ski, too).</p>
<p>He likes LACs and smaller schools, is looking for history/international relations, maybe environmental science. He likes urban and rural locations -- so this trip is to help tease out what he likes about each and what schools pique his interest. Would like to play football; will probably not be on anyone's recruitment lists. (I know not all the schools above have football.) However, he is a full IB diploma candidate and should have pretty decent test scores. This list feels reachy right now -- I hope some of the target/safer schools light his fire.</p>
<p>We did Connecticut College a week or so ago. Plan to do Wheaton, BC, Tufts, providence, Fairfield, Quinnipiac, Trinity, Wesleyan and Yale. These are all more or less in our backyard -- or at least within an easy day of driving and touring -- so they are more for getting the lay of the land rather than selecting schools for "the list".</p>
<p>We do intend to visit Princeton, Goucher, American, Georgetown and perhaps one or two more on a weekend trip later this month or early August.</p>
<p>abasket -- Thanks for the report. Butler and Drake are both fairly popular schools here (and often mentioned in the same breath because of pre-pharm.) I realized I knew very little about either one. Sounds like a very nice school.</p>
<p>We got back on July 3 from the "college tour."
We flew from New York to Chicago. Rented a car and drove to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, Indiana University, The Ohio State University in Columbus and flew home that evening. I think we put about 1,000 miles on the rental car.</p>
<p>Leaving today from Mpls-St.Paul, flying to Newark r/t to visit Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, Penn, Cornell, Middlebury, Bates, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan in that order.</p>
<p>Wow, bclintonk, that's quite a trip! I hope you'll share, publicly or privately, your thoughts on the schools you visit.</p>
<p>As for us, we're also in Mpls-St Paul, and got back yesterday from our NE tour: Middlebury, Amherst, Hamilton. In March we did the PNW: Whitman, UPS, Willamette, Louis & Clark.</p>
<p>D would love to see the schools in Maine - but we have to stop somewhere!</p>
<p>Went to spend the week in LA with family, saw Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, and the University of San Diego. Going on another road trip at the beginning of August to see Saint Mary's and Santa Clara University. I love college tours :)</p>
<p>D wants to get to Emory, Vanderbilt, and Rhodes. </p>
<p>We have been to lots of schools in PA, Virginia, Vermont, New York. Might see a couple more in Massachusetts, but not sure due to time and money.</p>
<p>D is a rising Senior. We visited Case and Vanderbilt during her junior year. So far this summer we went to So CA (hubby had a business trip which we added on to) and visited Mudd and USC (D liked Mudd but USC was definitely at best so-so).</p>
<p>Starting next Thursday:
Kenyon (science day) -- this is a day trip for us.
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
U of Richmond
Washington & Lee
Wake Forest
Davidson</p>
<p>Thank heavens for the Prius! 1000 miles to get from home to Davidson plus another 450 to get home. Hotels were all booked through Priceline for about $50/room/night.</p>
<p>Going to U Redlands (EK I will send you a full report), Cal Lutheran, and Oxy this summer. Already went to: UoP, Pepperdine, Santa Clara.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr, Muhlenburg, Oberlin - don't know if we can do more but may add Weslyen and Hobart William Smith. Already did Mount Holyoke but will go back for interview. Curious why the Bates, Bowdoin people are not doing Colby as well?</p>
<p>We toured Tufts, Clark, Emmanuel, Northeastern, Wheaton, Stonehill and Providence College this spring. In June we visited University of Mary Washington, Loyola (md.), Goucher, McDaniel, Lafayette, Gettysburg and Franklin and Marshall. I am trying to give my D lots of exposure; rural, urban, larger, with internships etc.</p>
<p>kindermom-Could you give some thoughts on the schools you visited. Many of them are on our to visit list and not talked about a lot on CC. We already went to Northeastern and Emmanuel. What type of major is your daughter interested in? Thanks for your help.</p>