<p>Since our President's Day trip was snowed out, I am trying to figure out if it is possible to squeeze these 6 schools into a Spring Break trip. We would fly out from the East Coast and rent a car, but even so it may be too ambitious or just too much driving, not even sure what city to fly into. We are trying to see Oberlin, Kenyon, Grinnell, Knox, Earlham and Beloit. Advice needed and welcomed.</p>
<p>Too many, too much driving. You might group Oberlin, Kenyon and Earlham together, and then the other three. Still a lot of driving, and even though it is called Spring Break, it is still often winter in the midwest in March. If you want a full day at each school, it will be difficult.</p>
<p>Lots of driving to visit them all. </p>
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<p>Cleveland and Akron airports are both about an hour from Oberlin. Columbus airport is about two hours if that’s less expensive (Southwest flies there).</p>
<p>Based on a trip DH took with D13, I think that Oberlin, Kenyon, Earlham, and Beloit in that order would be do-able, although Beloit is a 5-6 drive from Earlham. This would involve flying into Cleveland and flying out of Chicago. Grinnell would be a short flight or another 5 hour drive from Chicago, and it looks like Knox is somewhere between Chicago and Grinnell. We found that 3 schools on one trip (a school a day) was about the most our D was able to take in productively, although I’m sure that some kids have more stamina than that. </p>
<p>It’s doable but probably not a whole lot of fun. I would fly into O’hare and drive to Beloit first. From Beloit I’d drive to Grinnell, then Earlam, then Kenyon, finally Oberlin. Fly back home from Cleveland. Most of the drives are around 2 hours (one was 5 - might have been beloit to Grinnell)</p>
<p>It’s doable if the roads are dry and not icy or snowcovered. I like road trips and the driving times between the campuses is quite doable. With all three kids we often did a trip that had an occasional one in the morning, one in the afternoon if the campuses were close together…not day after day after day of that, but I’m assuming that is not the way this trip would be planned because of the distances…there are a couple logical one day pairings.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice. I think if we fly out on a Friday night, visit Beloit Saturday and drive to Grinell on Sunday and visit Monday it might work. We have two weekends and a full wk in April. Do I still have to worry about winter weather? I have to look at ticket prices. Our last trip was Delta and we have to use that credit, I try to always go with Southwest, but every few yrs I don’t and have to learn my lesson all over again.</p>
<p>I may still split this into two trips, but it’s nice to know the idea is not totally insane, just partially.</p>
<p>It’s been a hugely snowy and cold winter but hopefully by April we’ll be seeing patches of grass :-). Early April is spring break for a big chunk of the midwest high schools so the campuses should be busy with tours, etc. which isn’t a bad thing instead of arriving when the colleges are on spring break which is usually early in March. </p>