What’s your strategy? Will you visit any schools that are acceptances and contenders? Second visits, first visits? My daughter just mentioned a convention for her sport she’s expected to attend during spring break, I laughed and told her we will probably be visiting schools, there’s no way she can attend a convention. We’ve only visited maybe 1/3 of the schools she applied to. With acceptances coming in by April 1st, now I’m freaking out about getting in visits before commitment day May 1st.
Yep it’s crazy, especially if you applied out of state. i took my daughter out of class for a few days in the first week of March to visit schools, where she had received early yeses. As it turns out these were the three schools that landed on the top of her list. You should probably consider making more than one trip.
We’re visiting 3 schools - 2 for scholarship interviews, 1 because we haven’t visited yet.
Remember you don’t need to visit every single school your D has been accepted to. We ended up visiting my S’s top 4 contenders – we did not revisit schools that were un-affordable and schools were less desirable than these top few for any reason. Many colleges have an accepted student day so see if you can make any of those. But however you cut it., it is a lot and I agree with you that the visits will be more important than the sports convention.
Plan to visit schools that your daughter has been accepted to. Visiting prospectives before you know an acceptance decision could turn out to be a waste of time, or even setup a heartbreak if she falls in love and then doesn’t get in. Depending on the distance and quantity of the remaining colleges to visit, missing a day of school here and there to make those visits in April isn’t the end of the world either.
I’m using spring break to visit schools. I think it’s the best time especially if your daughter has a rigourous course scedule.
Yes, of course we will only visit schools to which she is admitted. We visited several schools last summer she was interested in, we should have all acceptances by April 1st and need to decide by May 1st… so spring break is the only opportunity I see for visits. I’m stressed not having any idea what these travel plans may be.
We’re planning to do visits. Haven’t thought too much about when. But did not realize May 1st is a magic date. Do most schools need you to decide by then!?!?!
I’m ready to start making some plans now, but a couple my son got into are near ones we haven’t heard from yet. I’d hate to go there, and not see them to then have him get in, but would also hate to go there, and, like magtf1 said, could set him up for heartbreak. Hmmm. We’ve got at least five distinct places to go to already, and perhaps more depending on more schools we’re waiting on.
Well, crap, I had not stressed about that, but I will be sure to now. 
Oh, I should add, we visited the northeast during winter break, but now have all the western schools to cover.
Yes @jesse’sgirl you have to commit by May 1st. With some schools waiting until April 1st to notify, it’s going to be a stressful few weeks!
We will be visiting the one school that S hasn’t seen yet. D visited it for a music competition when she was in college and thinks the campus is lovely but I want S to see it since it’s our best bet financially. There is an accepted student day beginning at 11 on Saturday, then he will interview for his program, after which we will probably see a theatrical performance at the school, since S is applying to the theater program. Sunday we will explore the town and in the evening, he will go back to the school for an overnight and to attend classes on the Monday. Since I could only visit there once, I had to load everything up.
Mine is missing a week of school at the end of this month to see 4 schools. Spring break is partially eaten up with the spring musical and we needed a week for the distance that needed to be covered.
He applied EA to all schools so that we could do this earlier knowing there was a spring conflict.
We did trim the list a bit, he is not visiting all acceptances and frankly should have cut one more in my opinion but I lost that battle.
At this point I’m wishing we had done early actions. My daughter was taking the act again and had a heavy dual credit 1st semester senior year which brought up her gpa, but having all of our answers by now would be lovely.
Take heart. In a few months this will all be in the past. Then all of the sudden, you’re looking into the rear view mirror as your daughter waves good bye from the steps of her new school. It happens so fast. Enjoy the journey.
I know it, right? 2 of four of our kids go off to college this summer.our house will be oddly quite come fall.
I’m not that I would’ve survived RD so I am grateful for EA. We are still waiting on scholarships this so it’s not entirely done.But either way it will all be over for all of us in just a few months.