College Road Trip

Two weeks from today, my grandma and I will be on our way to the East Coast in an effort to visit--no joke--31 colleges and universities over the course of two weeks. Don't worry though; I'm only doing the official "information session and campus tour" thing at a handful of schools. The rest we are just going to stop and walk around at, maybe ask some questions if we see people walking around campus. I also have one interview lined up at this point, and may be scheduling more if I can figure out how to manipulate our schedule in a way that allows for it.

Here is a list of all the schools I'll be seeing, roughly in the order I'll be seeing them in. The bolded ones are where I'll be doing "official" tours, and the ones with asterisks are where I have interviews scheduled.

University of Michigan
Oberlin College
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgetown University
Johns Hopkins University
Swarthmore College
Haverford College
University of Pennsylvania 
Princeton University
New York University
Columbia University
Wesleyan University* 
Yale University
Connecticut College
Brown University 
Boston College
Brandeis University
Harvard University
Tufts University
Bowdoin College
Colby College
Bates College
Dartmouth College
Amherst College
Williams College
Union College
Skidmore College
Hamilton College
Colgate University
Cornell University
and, finally, University of Rochester 

Sounds like a lot of work, huh? I agree. But I'm very excited to be able to see and feel the places I've been obsessively researching for months. My adviser says I need to condense my list of prospective schools soon and this trip will be a good way to narrow down what I'm looking for. There's no way I can like all of these schools, right?

So that's the plan! I'll take lots of pictures and try to do recaps of each school I visit so you can experience it along with me.