S/O - any disappointing tours?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the big name schools don't live up to the hype in person. Harvard...the campus does not look as good as you would think. Berkeley also disappointing, especially city area around campus. Same thing with Penn. Great schools people are lucky to go to...but they don't feel as good on a tour as expected.

Berkeley, Harvard, and Penn are in major cities. Either people are looking for an urban campus or not.

UCLA is in the city but the area around it is way nicer than Berkeley. Area around Brown is nicer than Penn.

Area around Harvard is fantastic...the campus just wasn't as impressive as I expected for the #1 US school. Oxford and Cambridge are much more impressive looking.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at William and Mary and is as Type B as they come. He's working, but not that hard. It's not everyone's vibe for sure, but all students aren't stressed out, straight A strivers. Mine loves it.

Moms still clinging to the old days desperately try to perpetuate those stereotypes as much as possible so they can relive the high school bullying days

DP. Huh? Noticing the definite vibe on campus is not "perpetuating stereotypes" or "bullying." But by all means, continue to add to those impressions with your bizarre posts.

It's the judgemental way you describe people like you're superior to them, if you had an ounce of self awareness you'd recognize that.

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What are you talking about?

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And *who* is that PP talking to? Weird.

If you're not smart enough to figure out how the back button works you probably shouldn't be talking down to others

I noticed you directing your post to someone who is a "DP." Meaning, they aren't the person to whom you have an issue. Clearly, it's you who needs to brush up on your forum skills.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is at William and Mary and is as Type B as they come. He's working, but not that hard. It's not everyone's vibe for sure, but all students aren't stressed out, straight A strivers. Mine loves it.

Moms still clinging to the old days desperately try to perpetuate those stereotypes as much as possible so they can relive the high school bullying days

DP. Huh? Noticing the definite vibe on campus is not "perpetuating stereotypes" or "bullying." But by all means, continue to add to those impressions with your bizarre posts.

It's the judgemental way you describe people like you're superior to them, if you had an ounce of self awareness you'd recognize that.

DP.
What are you talking about?

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And *who* is that PP talking to? Weird.

If you're not smart enough to figure out how the back button works you probably shouldn't be talking down to others

DP.
Even reading the back and forth it's unclear if the PP is talking about parents of students or random haters on this forum.

It was directed at the people on this forum making nasty comments about teenagers and young adults.

Oh, okay. Agreed. That comment by someone about the tour guide was totally rude.

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I haven't read any other nasty comments about "teenagers and young adults."
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Anonymous wrote:Some of the big name schools don't live up to the hype in person. Harvard...the campus does not look as good as you would think. Berkeley also disappointing, especially city area around campus. Same thing with Penn. Great schools people are lucky to go to...but they don't feel as good on a tour as expected.

Berkeley, Harvard, and Penn are in major cities. Either people are looking for an urban campus or not.

UCLA is in the city but the area around it is way nicer than Berkeley. Area around Brown is nicer than Penn.

Area around Harvard is fantastic...the campus just wasn't as impressive as I expected for the #1 US school. Oxford and Cambridge are much more impressive looking.

When you take into account American history of Puritanism and the type of culture in New England, it makes perfect sense. Back then, it wasn’t about being flashy and impressively well built

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Anonymous wrote: My DS couldn’t wait to get in the car and leave W & M. The tour guide seemed kind of blah about selling it and overall looked bored and miserable. The school was a lot smaller than we thought but I would say of all the tours we had in VA , this one was the worst.

I was just about to write exactly the same thing! W&M seemed utterly miserable. My DC didn't even want to stay for the information session, even though I insisted. DC couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Why/how?

The entire vibe - the students we encountered - the incredibly dull presentation - the types of kids who were in attendance - I could go on and on. There was honestly not one appealing thing to list. I kept all of that to myself at the time, but when it was clear DC was totally turned off and wanted to leave, I had to agree.

What about the kids who were in attendance was not pleasing?

I think people have gotten so used to the over the top, rah-rah instagram style presentation of big sports schools that when they visit a public school that projects a more low-key, studious and artsy vibe they get turned off.

It’s like people need a cheesy sports-focused hype video at every info session or else they think the school is weird.

Our tour guide was visually offensive and her spiel was riddled with unfunny, uncomfortable sarcasm. Complete and absolute turnoff.

Our William &Mary tour guide was a hottie. My with wanted to get his number, I'm not sure whether for her or our daughter.

Our Dartmouth tour guide was wearing a small sports bra and leggings (no shirt). Exactly like this--cleavage and all:


t was unexpected.

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creepy Xer & Xennial parents abound. Ick. DC is truly a cesspool.

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oh, wow - I would be a bit surprised by a tour guide basically wearing a bra to give a tour, too.

I have to laugh because when I was touring colleges with my mom back in the 90s, we had a couple funny experiences.

-While touring an LAC in PA, the guide knocked on a door to be able to show a room, and the guy who lived there was perfectly OK with our group coming in while he was at his desk wearing just his boxers. And my mom struck up a conversation with him! I'm not gonna lie, the guy was good looking.
-While touring JMU as an OOS student, we somehow managed to get the tour guides from our home state of DE. One or two of them (it was a group of guys where a couple were trainees) had gone to my HS. So they chatted us up the whole time - I felt somewhat bad for the rest of the group that was with us.