Why Overnight College Visits are So Important AND Valuable

For both my girls, the college choosing process did not seem to be about falling in love.

We’d heard the stories, of course, of friends who’d gone on a college tour, or maybe just perused the web site, or who knew someone at a college and fell.in.love. Those students, it seemed, over and over, just knew they belonged at that college. They knew that was the number one choice – that all other choices would be second and third and fourth and fifth.

Maybe the student was so in love that he or sh...