TIPS, Tools & Links
Essential Information for the Pre- and Post-Admissions Process
Daytripper’s own original posts...sites we like... plus advice from experts, parents and students from everything to college touring, dorm room decor to how to navigate high school stress.
Daytripper University Tips
Top Ten Tips for effective college visits
As an experienced college visit planner, Janice Caine often refers back to the tips that worked best for her when she first began. She now shares these tips with parents looking for guidance, here she shares her top ten tips with DTU.
DTU Tips For College Tours
In the last few years we've been on countless tours and information sessions and learned a few things along the way. We also grilled other parents, students and college advisors for their suggestions and advice so you can make the most of your college visits.
COLLEGE SUMMER VISITS - TO TOUR OR NOT TO TOUR
ADVICE FROM STUDENTS TO STUDENTS
How to Make the Most of Your Internship
A Guide to A Succesful Junior Year
5 Steps To Tackle Standardized Testing
Advice from parents to Parents - The Female Perspective
Advice from Parents to Parents - The Male perspective
Great Dorm Room Style
The Ultimate Dorm Room Style Secrets from Charlotte Klein, Daytripper Ambassador from Wesleyan University and Taft Boarding School Alum. Charlotte has always been known for having the coolest room, hands down, and now you can too with her decor secrets she shares with Daytripper University!
helpful sites for parents
Mary Dell Harrington and Lisa Endlich Heffernan are the forces behind this site, featuring a wealth of information covering issues related to parenting children ages 15-25. Extremely well written posts on going to college-- everything from preparing for the SAT’s to moving into your dorm room.
PARENTS COUNTDOWN TO COLLEGE COACH
Helping Parents navigate the college maze
Destination for Parents to connect, support and gather information such as important dates, housing and campus resources to help their child succeed at school.
Tell your kids
Sites by Students for Students
MODERN TRANSPORTATION, THE COLLEGE WAY. Red Route is uber for college campuses. Currently available at Cornell and Ithaca College, and will be launching at Syracuse later this Fall.
Your first destination: a go-to resource for all things traveling, living and studying abroad.
The everyday food resource for our generation, on a mission to make food make sense.
The college student’s guide for staying fit and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Lace up your sneakers, clip in your spin shoes and roll out your yoga mat...it's time to get sweaty.