Out-of-state college tours are pricey. And I started our college touring with a dooozy of a trip. I don't think most families need to do it the way we did.
Last spring break, I packed up the kids (Rachel and her 11-year-old brother, Alex) and headed east. Our trip certainly wasn't the biggest college tour I've ever heard of — one family I know visited twice as many schools as we did in the same amount of time. But for us, this was a big, very expensive trip.
Rachel wanted to see Cornell University most of all the East Coast colleges, so I bundled tours of several other colleges into one long road trip, from Buffalo to Baltimore. Because Rachel had no other East Coast colleges on her list, and because I didn't want our 10-day spring break trip to be just for one college, I arranged tours wherever we happened to have friends or family, so the trip was actually multifunctional.
We flew into Buffalo, New York, and started our odyssey by heading south to Cornell in a rented car.
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