<p>How many colleges did you end up visiting? There are so many -- it is overwhelming.</p>
<p>What made you visit them? Website, brochure, referral? Especially those out of state?</p>
<p>When did you go? Junior or senior year?</p>
<p>Details, please.
Thanks!</p>
<p>20 schools. Began with Fiske Guide, internet research, viewbooks, rankings.......planned several trips East and West Coasts.....also some Heartland. I could only take 2 days from my school and thus I did Spring Break, before Labor Day and also three day weekends. It all paid of in that quickly I knew what I liked.</p>
<p>It is only overwhelming if you make it so. Pick one or two factors. For example gotta be near a beach or lots of snow or no snow. Single sex or big on sports. That part is easy really. Pick something.......that matters to you.</p>
<p>BU, Northeastern, Temple, UConn for myself Junior year.</p>
<p>Visited UVA, Stanford and Harvard while traveling.</p>
<p>What made me visit them? Um, the need to see colleges that interested me...</p>
<p>I visited soo many schools, and I'm still incredibly confused.</p>
<p>I guess about 20. Some more indepth than others, some because of my older siblings</p>
<p>I visited 2 schools. I applied to schools, waited for my acceptances and aid packages to arrive to see if it's possible for me to attend, then visited and made a decision based on what I felt.</p>
<p>Visited Cal, UCLA and Stanford at debate tournaments and then Visited Stanford and Harvard when choosing between the two.</p>
<p>When D was looking 5 years ago, we visited 5 colleges; one in October of her junior year, the others in the summer before senior year. We chose these based on her interests, desired major, location, academic stats. Most of that information we found on the colleges' websites. She applied to 3 and was accepted to all 3. She then did overnights at all of them to determine her final choice.</p>
<p>S is looking now and he is a little tougher as his goals are not as clearly defined. So we have visited 7 schools - we actually had 10-11 on the list, but as we have looked, his desires have become more focused. And one school we took off the list because of a very rude admissions person who got very annoyed with me when I asked to schedule the visit for a day when something else was going on, of which I had no knowledge. </p>
<p>Some of these were schools we saw with D that we felt would fit S, some were from college mailings and some were actually from Counselor-o-matic. Again, these choices were based on what his needs are.</p>
<p>His first visit was November of junior year, another in March of junior year, and the majority over spring break of junior year. </p>
<p>I liked Counselor-o-matic for school suggestions. It can give you a place to start, if you have no clue.</p>
<p>My daughter visited - Southwestern, Uof Houston, Texas, A&M, Tulane, Davidson, William & Mary, Williams, Skidmore, Hamilton, Allegheny, Centre, Sewanee, Rhodes, Carleton, Macalester. First few visits were during sophomore year, last visits were at end of junior year.</p>
<p>She started out looking locally, then refined her choices (small LAC preferred). After that, it was a matter of researching possibilities through attending college fairs, and a bit from college guides. I don't think she really looked at websites much.</p>
<p>I agree that Princeton Review's Counselor-O-Matic is good for providing suggestions - but the sorting into reach/match/safety is questionable.</p>
<p>I visited around 20, because i lived within 2 hours of all of them, and a lot of them i visited not on a planned trip, but while i was in the area for other reasons:
uconn, wesleyan, connecticut college, trinity, brown, uri, tufts, brandeis
boston college, williams, amherst, dartmouth, union, binghamton, vassar, columbia, nyu, mt holyoke, smith, barnard</p>
<p>first i made a list with my college counselor, who had a bunch of suggestions which we narrowed down in meetings. then my parents and i arranged college visits, which we did. i visited every single school to which i plan to apply, along with a bunch of others that didn't make the cut. so i visited harvard, yale, duke, unc, upenn, swarthmore, smith, wellesley, mit, stanford, princeton, brown, columbia, tufts, wash u, uchicago, northwestern, and emory.
i'm applying to 8 out of those 18: harvard, yale, duke, unc, wellesley, penn, stanford, uchicago</p>
<p>i visited every school during junior year. during the summer i'm busy.</p>