From The Choice Blog: More College Tours

There's a fun post on NYT's "The Choice" blog today about another high school counselor's summer college tour. This tour was unique for its vehicle: a touring bike à la the Tour de France. Suddenly the 1997 Chevy Blazer I borrowed from my aunt and uncle in New England seems a lot less stylish.

You can read the post on "The Choice" here. This is a pretty neat idea for a college tour, I think: like my long drives through the wilds of Vermont and Western Mass, taking a bike tour is a great way to get an intimate sense of a place. The counselors' tour in this post took counselors from across the country to several of the best schools in the Mid-Atlantic region, and it sounds like they covered a remarkable amount of ground. If you take anything from this article, I hope it's a quick laugh and a quick Google search for the schools he mentions. Several--especially Franklin and Marshall, Skidmore, and St John's College--are really special places, and I'd love to get them on your radar.