<p>I'm curious about how many school tours/visits end up with an application and how many visits which do not and then there are the schools with no tour/visit and an application. How did your schools breakdown?</p>
<p>we had:</p>
<p>8 school tours with 6 applications
....2 tours, no applications.</p>
<p>3 schools, no tours with applications....we will tour if accepted.</p>
<p>S1 6 tours, 2 applications
2 applications without a visit (did not even tour after accepted)</p>
<p>This time around with the twins we had 28 schools we visited total I think. Not sure how to count those because many of those schools both kids went on tours. DS applied to 10 schools, DD applied to 9. Of those 19 schools, we “officially” visited 20 of them-tours, etc. Did drive throughs at 1 and didn’t visit 2. Accepted at 18 of 19 so far, did not tour any other schools after acceptance but will go on some scholar day visits for scholarship competitions.</p>
<p>We visited 10 and applied to 7 (many being free apps). I only applied to schools I saw and liked, I think I would’ve spent a lot of money doing otherwise ( ex: I visited SUNY Oneonta and Cortland cause I LOVED them online, but I hated them both so thats 100 dollars I didn’t need to spend.)</p>
<p>Let’s see if i can remember with the other two.</p>
<p>D1 visited 4, applied to 4</p>
<p>S visited 5, applied to 5
…applied to 3 others but didn’t visit.</p>
<p>Can’t recall for D1. For D2:</p>
<p>20 visits (most with tour, class attendance if they were in session, info session, eat on campus)
10 applications (9 of them schools she visited, 1 a school she has not seen)</p>
<p>Ds2 has toured seven schools and applied to five. He’s applying to four that he hasn’t seen.</p>
<p>Ds1 toured 12 schools and applied to eight. He applied to three more he’d never seen. H got into two of those, but we never toured and he never really put them on the table.</p>
<p>With D2, we visited 2 campuses, applied to 4 schools. She wound up going ton one that she visited. </p>
<p>The 2 that we did not visit were private schools, and she decided after researching on her own that she was not interested in actually visiting or going there. We only applied because they were good schools that waived the application fee and sent her a simplified application. We began the research after applying and decided against.</p>
<p>With D3, we had 5 Universities on her short-list. We had plans to visit them all - and we started visits well before applications were open. We only got to #2 on the visiting when she told me that she had made a decision and there was no point in continuing visits. She only applied to the school of her choice.</p>
<p>3 schools officially toured and applied to (no acceptances yet)
3 schools officially toured and eliminated
1 local school, very familiar with, applied and accepted
1 not toured yet, have acceptance, will tour later if don’t get into top choice</p>
<p>Summary: 5 applications. 7 tours including local. Started with 20 on spreadsheet.</p>
<p>S toured 14 and applied to 9. Two he never visited and were last minute add on safety schools. In hindsight, his list was probably too safety heavy.</p>
<p>wow, SteveMA–great job! How are your kiddos making their decisions?</p>
<p>boysx3–DD is a recruited athlete and has already committed to a school based on fit, $$$ and location. DS is the one with the one he hasn’t heard from yet–April notification, lottery school. If he gets in there and they give him enough money, he is going there, otherwise he may end up at the same school as DD as they have already given him a lot of merit aid. He has 2 more schools with the potential of a more merit aid so for him it will come down to the school that wants to give him the most money :D. We targeted schools where merit aid was a given so the acceptance ratio isn’t a surprise.</p>
<p>S visited 10 schools. Eliminated 2. Applied to 1 flagship school EA that he never visited, 1 Ivy ED and 3 other lottery schools RD before hearing back from the ED school. He had 6 others ready to go, two of which he had not visited. Got into the flagship Honors program and full ride, academic LL from one HMFR in Dec and accepted at the ED school, which is where he is now.
D visited 6 schools and eliminated one. Has applied ED to a LAC and EA to a large public that she never visited. Waiting with four others ready to go mid-Dec if necessary, all of which she visited.</p>
<p>S1 - 4 visits, 3 applications + 4 more applications to schools he didn’t visit
(Didn’t get into any of the schools he visited previously so, he visited them all in April senior year.)</p>
<p>S2- 8 visits, 5 applications + 2 applications to schools he didn’t visit
Got into 1 school he hadn’t visited and so visited that school in April (it was one of top 2 choices)</p>
<p>S1 - felt strongly that visits were not necessary, S2 felt that it was very hard to put together a good application without a visit.</p>
<p>Note also that I took S2 to one school I was pretty sure he wouldn’t like (too small, too rural), but I wanted him to see that school for comparison</p>
<p>Both kids have seen Alma Mater for reunions, but didn’t have official visits and did apply, so you could add one to the visit column if that counts.</p>
<p>S1, visited 11 - applied 5, S2, visited 9 - applied 6, S3 visited 8 - applied 7 + 2 apps to schools not visited.</p>
<p>For a while it seemed that schools went off the list once we visited. DS applied early to several schools before visits only to knock them off his list as he visited. Only three schools that he visited made the final decision list. Still, when the average size of the school was 2,000 students it was essential that he visit. </p>
<p>He ended up at the school that he visited the most (2 scholarship competition overnights, 2 invitation campus day and 2 regular visits). It is a school that expects admitted students to visit since it is a unique environment. You really have to know what you are getting before you sign on the bottom line.</p>
<p>DS visited 12 schools, applied 7 including schools he had not visited b/c of distance and time. Ruled out 2 schools from the visits. Ended up accepting (and now attending) one of the schools he had not visited until after acceptance - completely on the other side of the country and the “dark horse” among his apps.</p>
<p>I’m actually in awe of kids that can apply and attend a college sight unseen. 4 years and all that money is such a huge commitment but I suppose that some people actually can thrive wherever they land.</p>
<p>sewhappy - we took older kid to see three schools and state flagship spring break of sophomore year. Then no more visits because he was way too busy. He applied to eight or so. None of which he’d visited except the state flagship. It was just fine. He visited the one he was accepted to EA at winter break, the others spring break and accepted student weekends.</p>
<p>Younger one visited state flagship, a university she did a summer program at by attending the summer program, and two that she was considering to apply SCEA for. Then she applied for five. Saw the ones she was accepted at and hadn’t seen at accepted student weekends. </p>
<p>We never understood the big need to do the big visit trips. But all kids are different.</p>
<p>D1: visited 9, applied to 5 of them. She had the “fall in love” moment with one of them junior year & really could have applied just there, especially since it was the one that offered her the biggest merit package.</p>
<p>D2: 16 “real” visits (applying to 6 of those,) 2 “drive by” visits (applying to 1 one of those,) 2 “dragged along” visits with D1 (applying to neither of those,) plus 4 schools where she’s spent a minimum of 7 nights on campus either at summer programs or for EC competitions (applying to none of those.) No wonder I’m done with campus visits!</p>
<p>She’s not applying anywhere sight unseen, although she hasn’t seen 3 of the schools during the traditional school year.</p>