<p>When is the best time to visit colleges? I'm a high school junior interested in seeing the schools of the North East, particularly Ivy League, probably during spring break. Will students be gone then?
And what is the cheapest/most efficient way to go at this? Would anyone reccomend a tour bus company?</p>
<p>Their spring break is not necessarily your spring break, so that's not necessarily a problem. Look up the calendars for individual schools. That does tend to be the time of year, though, when schools hold preview weekends for admitted students, so you could run into issues with that.</p>
<p>No do this.</p>
<p>Fly into NYC. Go visit Columbia in Manhattan. Then go to Penn Station on 34th street, take the train to New Haven to visit Yale. Then take another train (another hour) to go to Boston and see Harvard. When you get to Penn Station when you come back, just hop on another train for ~40 minutes and go See Princeton.</p>
<p>So by this point you'll have already seen: Columbia, harvard, yale, Princeton. </p>
<p>The rest of the four, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Penn are kinda out of the way. You can hop on a train at Penn Station to go visit Penn though. Cornell,Dartmouth, and Brown are hard to visit. I would suggest narrowing it down and picking 1 out of the 3 to go visit. HYPCPenn you can visit in a big chunk over 2-3 days.</p>
<p>Agree that you should look up when specific schools have break on their websites.</p>
<p>I wouldn't try to visit more than 4-5 schools over a week, though. Though it may seem convenient at first, I think that visiting more than one school per day is just going to confuse you and cause you to forget what was where, etc. Pick 4-5 schools that you really want to see; you can't possibly like all the Ivies enough to visit them all. They're very different.</p>
<p>Brown is only around an hour from Boston by car, if you're particularly interested in that and are also going to see Harvard.</p>
<p>Check the times of info sessions and tours to see if you really can visit two schools in one day. It may be difficult unless they are quite close to one another. Of course, you can get a pretty good look at some schools even without a formal tour.</p>