S/O - any disappointing tours?

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern. The auditorium was ancient. A dean spoke and then brought an awkward student to speak of his experience he made no eye contact and looked at the floor. The campus is claustrophobically tight with zero green space.

It's always interesting when people comment on the appearance of a college, as if they never looked at it while making travel plans.

It’s interesting when someone has anything mildly negative to say about Northeastern. It’s as if the boosters don’t know it’s coming.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

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best tours: UCLA, Duke, Yale, Bowdoin. worst: Stanford, Penn, Bates, UChicago (they should have a winter tour - standing and talking at length about x or y in the freezing cold when there's a building we could have ducked in steps away started to piss me off).

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

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all the students and faculty (even people in cafeterias) we ran across when we toured schools were so kind and rah-rah about their schools.

My daughter and I toured Meredith College in NC. She was there as a potential dance and exercise science double major. She took a class first thing in the morning while I sat and chatted with the head of the department at length (one of her students was instructing that day). We then wondered past a brand new building and the head of the construction team saw us looking and said "come on in and look around" - the building included the exercise science department and it was lovely. We wound up in the cafeteria next, where all the staff just gushed about how much they loved the school and students. We ran into some of the students from the class my child had been to and they all said hello and told her how much she would love being there. It was such a nice experience.

She went to another small LAC in the end, but we had positive experiences basically everywhere we went.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

My child doesn't go to W&M. She calls me all the time about how annoying touring parents, like you, are.

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Did people here not go to college? Sure, I smiled at creepy parents watching me like a zoo animal on their tour, but I definitely didn't like that they were there. It's annoying having smiling people who are likely getting rejected walk around and take up space when you are in an academically rigorous place and just trying to get to the next lecture.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

My child doesn't go to W&M. She calls me all the time about how annoying touring parents, like you, are.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

Our W&M tour experience was completely different. Students were all kind and happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:best tours: UCLA, Duke, Yale, Bowdoin. worst: Stanford, Penn, Bates, UChicago (they should have a winter tour - standing and talking at length about x or y in the freezing cold when there's a building we could have ducked in steps away started to piss me off).

We had a meh tour at Bowdoin, and a great tour at Penn. (I’d say Dartmouth and Middlebury were our best tours overall, Haverford was the worst.) DS was more inclined to Bowdoin type schools so it was disappointing and did influence how/where he applied. I agree on the winter tours, although my kid pointed out, better that he visit cold weather climate colleges when it was actually cold!

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

My child doesn't go to W&M. She calls me all the time about how annoying touring parents, like you, are.

How entitled your DD sounds!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS did not like tours at Wake Forest, Richmond, UVA and Pitzer.

If before Aug. 30, all of the tour guides were sacked by administration for being too woke.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

My child doesn't go to W&M. She calls me all the time about how annoying touring parents, like you, are.

Your DD may need to be treated for anxiety or depression, if she has complained about this more than once. This is the topic of conversation out of everything a young girl in college can talk about? Yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

My child doesn't go to W&M. She calls me all the time about how annoying touring parents, like you, are.

How entitled your DD sounds!

Entitled for focusing on her studies and excelling at her major? No, I don’t think so. You are entitled for demanding that students on campuses take time for you and roll you the red carpet for visiting. You must be sad when traveling in foreign countries and everyone doesn’t care about you.

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We definitely had a few lousy tours - and my take away isn't that the schools are bad in some way, but rather wow, what power the tour guides have on first impressions. Kids are kids and if the tour guides are not their people in some way, or, if they don't impress the parents, that's it. We had poor experiences at two great places - Middlebury and William and Mary. In both cases, the tour guides were just being themselves, but presented in a way, and spoke about the school in ways, that turned off my kids. I know enough kids that go to these schools and have great experiences and that DCs rejection of the schools was just a case of a bad first impression but there was no turning back - that was it and we moved on. I would have loved DC to consider Middlebury in particular and was surprised it went so poorly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary. Horribly dull, current students wouldn't look anyone in the eye, dreary feel all around.

Students at W&M hate the tours bc they always block pathways and academic buildings and I don't blame them.

DP. Tours block the way on all campuses. Students usually take it in stride and more often than not, smile or interact graciously. Not at W&M. One of many total turnoffs at that school.

Students do not at all care about you touring. They just want you to get out of their way.

And again - students at other schools are far more gracious about inconvenient and annoying tour groups.

My child doesn't go to W&M. She calls me all the time about how annoying touring parents, like you, are.

How entitled your DD sounds!

Entitled for focusing on her studies and excelling at her major? No, I don’t think so. You are entitled for demanding that students on campuses take time for you and roll you the red carpet for visiting. You must be sad when traveling in foreign countries and everyone doesn’t care about you.

DP. All please stop posting here and take it somewhere else. So tired of reading the word ENTITLED