When you kids doesn't like any schools $$ starts to matter or is it just me?

I’ll make you feel better, I have a rising senior…he and I have toured 7 schools so far and one has garnered a NO. The rest are “nice” and I drug a “best campus” vote out of him kicking and screaming, lol, well not quite, but close. He has yet to research any schools. I think he is dreaming of MIT and I hope that is the yard stick by which he plans to measure…please, measure anything!!! But I got frustrated at the last one and told him, my measure is money. If he doesn’t figure out why he wants a place, I will decide based on low cost. We are touring 6 schools in about a week, including MIT…so he better come prepared to talk about them after that. He will be my captive audience from Boston to Troy to Rochester to Cleveland and then back to Tennessee…a total of about 18 hours in the car…it may be a LONG ride.