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I'm with Calmom. As a family, we based the decision on which schools S1 should apply to on a set of objective criteria. It was just not feasible to visit all of those schools, so we waited for the acceptances. He was accepted to 10 or so schools, so once again we used objective measurements to decide where he should visit. I think it was an advantage to visit the top three choices in a 2 week period. Though stressful, it provided the most realistic appraisal at that point in time. He had matured quite a bit over the course of senior year, so I don't think that the earlier visits were as useful. </p>
<p>It does seem that some daughters seem to rely more on impressions made during visits. Is that the case? My son is just extremely logical, which made the decisions more quantitative in nature.</p>
<p>I just wanted to add that my son liked every college that we were able to visit, so this was clearly not a good method for eliminating choices!</p>