College Tour, 2010

Unbelievably [insert cliche' about rapid passing of time here], my oldest daughter is a "rising senior" and is thus taking her college board tests, receiving piles of mail from various universities, and visiting potential academic homes for fall 2011.

This past week, my spouse and I accompanied our daughter for this itinerary:

Sunday:
Swarthmore (tour by alum; spouse of member of our weddding party)
Princeton: student tour

Monday
Vassar: student tour and information session

Tuesday
Yale: student tour and information session

Wednesday
Amherst: student tour and information session
Williams: student tour and information session

Thursday
Middlebury: student tour and information session

Friday
Colby: student tour and information session
Bowdoin: student tour and information session

Saturday
Harvard: student tour
Tufts: self-administered tour

We still plan to visit Brandeis and Brown before flying home. Previously, she visited Penn, Chicago, Carleton and Macalester.

I grew up in small Kansas towns and wanted to attend a large university with lots of resources. Our daughter grew up in Louisville (save for the 2005 sabbatical in Boston) and seems to prefer the smaller liberal arts colleges in rural New England.

In sum, it looks like Williams, Vassar, and perhaps Carleton or Bowdoin are currently the lead choices.

Feel free to provide any insight about these choices in comments. We are definitely still in the shopping stage.


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