And it's important to make that visit count. That's what Marisa Morrison and Eric Weiner, both 17 and juniors at Bellaire High School, plan to do during their spring break. In March, Morrison and her mother, Riki Weinstein, will head to the East Coast to visit several universities, including Tufts and Harvard in Massachusetts, Yale in Connecticut, Columbia in New York and Princeton in New Jersey. They plan to stay with relatives and friends to make it a mini-vacation. This summer, they'll head to the West Coast to visit Stanford University and small liberal-arts colleges.
High school goes by really fast.
It seems like just yesterday I was a freshman and didn't need to worry about college, and now I do. Weiner visited Emory University in Atlanta, his mother's alma mater, last summer. During spring break, Weiner and his mom will visit the University of Pennsylvania as well as Princeton and Columbia. Later on, he will tour Washington University in St. Louis. He also is considering the University of Texas and University of Virginia.