To visit multiple unis with DD before she does her UCAS application?

[MintyCedricRidesAgain]

So you can apply for 5 places...we're looking at 7.

4 are day trip distance, 3 are further afield and require an overnight stay in cheap hotel.

I want to be as supportive as I can of DD as that was something I didn't get at all from my own parents. It was completely out of my dad's frame of reference and my mum was actively against it.

I'm a single parent and not especially flush at the moment but this is really important to me and DD. It's 3-4 years of her life, huge student loans and a life changing experience. I want her to be confident in her decision and happy with the outcome.

My mum is constantly on my back about how OTT and indulgent I'm being and frankly it's driving me up the wall. Whilst it's none of her business and won't change my approach, AIBU?

My DS loved his campus so much he moved back onto it for his third year in accommodation with other third year students.

I went to university in the late 1980s in the era of no tuition fees and full maintenance loans. There were no talks for parents and no one really looked around at open days with their parents in tow. However my parents did drive me to my first and second choices (back then you had to specify choices in order). They dropped me off to look around and returned several hours later to collect me. Indeed my dad even drove one of my friends to an open day because her parents couldn't drive and it was an awkward journey on public transport. I didn't visit my other 3 choices, but again that was more common 35 years ago. The landscape is different now and I will be accompanying DS if that's what he wants, particularly because he will only qualify for the minimum student loans and DH and I will be footing a rather hefty bill so we need to know it's the right choice for him.