Schools you toured that you were surprised you liked or didn’t like?
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UVA boosters are worse then vegan bicyclists. |
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MIT alum. I'll admit I didn't love Boston as city, but I did love the Boston area as a place to go to college. I had good friends at MIT, Harvard, Wellesley, Tufts, and BU by the time I graduated. |
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Try not to vacation in CA. And most schools out here, there is a real risk that he would find himself in similarly uncomfortable situations. |
Anonymous
West cost schools tend to be waaaaaay whiter than east coast schools on the whole. |
Anonymous
What kind of boy sees a bunch of hot sorority chicks partying and thinks it's a bad thing? |
Anonymous
This is always my complaint about the tour guides. When you look at the group of tour guides as a whole, they aren't really representative of the whole university. |
Anonymous
Uh, only if you consider Asian kids white. |
Anonymous
“The Rec” was really nice- pools, lazy river, elevated track, climbing wall,etc… campus as a whole was nice- compact and easy to get around but tons of stuff. I am sure it helped that the weather was gorgeous and our tour guide was great. |
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For better or worse, tour guides and admissions reps are the face of a school for many people. It is amazing that many schools do not focus much effort on vetting them more. Just because someone was accepted to a school doesn't mean they are suited for this role. Obviously different kids will click with different tour guides but too often there are guides where you want to say "what were you thinking?"
Similarly, some AO's should be left to reading apps and kept far away from information sessions. |
Anonymous
Nope. University of Oregon is 65% white and 6% Asian University of Washington is 40% white and 20% Asian Calpoly is 55% white and 17% Asian All three are less than 4% black. Like I said, they are white af. |
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Well, the country as a whole is about 65% white, so that means the school is balanced and fairly representative of society.
Your other 2 examples are hardly white AF. What is the unaccounted 40% at UW? How about the close to 30% at Cal Poly? 80-90% white is white AF. That was a point against one of my daughter’s choices. And I think is the current situation at my Alma mater, which isn’t great. |
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Look, lady, I'm not gonna educate you on the history of this country and how blacks were brought here in bondage and generally stayed within a couple hundred miles of where their ancestors were emancipated, but if you think the University of Georgia or Alabama or North Carolina is as white as Oregon or the central coast of California, you are just a fool. Be my guest being one. |
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Just want to remind people that each tour guide is still a kid just a year or few older than your kid. They have bad days.
I was a tour guide at my SLAC. I was super happy there and I loved the tour guide group, but we signed up for tours weeks in advance and we gave our tours no matter what was happening in our lives. Today, I can compartmentalize and perform at work regardless of what's happening at home, but am I certain that I gave amazing tours despite stressful, disappointing, and downright tragic events that happened in my college years? I doubt it. Give these kids a little grace. |
Anonymous
How long ago was this? The school is si beautiful and has so many new buildings that still fit into the campus. We were surprised T how neaut |
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As a gay “boy” myself, it would be a turn off for me. |