<p>I'm sure we are not the only ones but coming up in early April is some combination of my wife and/or I and our daughter traveling to 4 admitted student days in a week. This includes three over a weekend--Friday, Saturday, and Monday with the outlier not until the next Friday.</p>
<p>It's manageable because all are within day trip driving, although the one that's 225 miles away--which is the only one she didn't tour before applying--will require a when the rooster crows wake up. </p>
<p>There is a clear favorite, which is the closest, but it's third in the itinerary. And our little darling wants to feel all the love. </p>
<p>Anyone else care to post their accepted student mileage? I can't imagine the logistics of combining overnight stays and airplanes.</p>
<p>latichever, we are in the same boat as you as far as the ones we are looking at are all about 2-3 hrs away. Why oh why do they all start about 9:00 a.m.? Really not wanting to book any more hotel rooms, did way too many of those already, so it looks like we are getting up before daylight a few times in the next couple weeks.</p>
<p>We’re flying from San Juan, PR (our spring break destination) to Spokane, WA (potential college destination). It’s 3500 miles. Are we crazy? We’re visiting 4 schools in 4 days, which involves about 12 hours of driving.</p>
<p>Our 3 kids visited 2, 3, and 2 schools each. The last was scheduled to see a 3rd school but decided on #2 during the trip, so we were able to cancel the 3rd (cross country flight). Visiting 4 schools seems like overkill for all concerned. One would hope that it would be possible to narrow down the list to 2 or 3. YMMV, of course.</p>
<p>“Visiting 4 schools seems like overkill for all concerned.”</p>
<p>Well, as I said, my daughter wants to feel all the love. That said, there’s enough difference among them to see all 4. Three are lacs, one of which is 50-50 female-male, while the other two are 60-40. One gave more aid, while another is higher ranked. And the fourth school is a good State U. If only the front runner were first, not third on the itinerary.</p>
<p>And this all is a once in a lifetime experience for my daughter–and me. I attended a commuter school and didn’t leave home until grad school.</p>
<p>Several years ago we did 4, but not all in one week. Ours were in 2-at-a-time increments. One school (American) had not been visited before. One set (DC) was a 4 hour drive (with a relative to stay with overnight). Other was a Friday and Sunday combination, plus she stayed Monday to visit a few classes at BC. So flight to Boston, 4 nights hotel. We enjoyed our weekend in Boston with Saturday free time. I think it is important to check before the final decision is made. Now my youngest is a junior in HS and plays a spring sport, so she wants to visit heavily in the fall and winter so we don’t have to miss too many practices/games in April.</p>
<p>We’re visiting 4 schools in one week covering CA, IL, MA, and NY. We’re from NY so the NY school is an easy 1 1/2 hour trip (we’ll leave at 7:30AM), the Mass school means driving up the evening before but at least it’s a drive. IL school is 3 hours SW of Chicago so we’ll fly and drive. Then there’s CA which is complicated because my husband is being honored at a dinner the night before so we will be taking the redeye, sleeping a few hours in a hotel, and then visiting the school. I wanted to pick another day, skip the admitted students day, but my husband thought it was important to go for admitted student. </p>
<p>And I’m not even certain that after all this she won’t still need to research the schools via their websites and course catalog. </p>
<p>But hey, it’s all good and a lot of fun if you approach it correctly!
That is a narrowed down schedule! She has two more but one is definitely out and the other is probably out and is the last of the series so she leaving it in just in case but will, hopefully, cancel.</p>