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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising senior has toured a bunch of schools now, and has a clear preference for two.  At both schools we had a tour guide who was passionate about the same things my kid is passionate about and talked a lot about those things.  We visited other schools that seemed similar on paper but where the tour guide was a nice kid with different interests and could only give vague answers to my kid’s questions, and my kid walked away thinking he might not find “his people” there.  But I am wondering how much of this reflects a difference in campus culture and how much is just luck.

What has been people’s experiences?[/quote]

Having a good tour guide helps

At the school my kid ultimately is attending (and was likely their "top choice" from the start, but they applied to 2 higher ranked schools they said were their top choices), I could see from the start of the tour that my kid loved the campus.  It definately helped that both tours we ended up with a Chem ENg tour guide (my kid's major).  Helped them see that yes, it was a good fit for them.  Also helped that for 2nd tour date, I arranged a tour with a current senior engineering major (there were no Engineering tours that day) and I accidentally hit the jackpot with a BME major (so similar to ChemE) whose EC align 1000% with my own kid's ECs.  After that I knew this was the school (kid didn't get into the "top 2 choices, Rejected and WL at them")

So at this School, there are always at least 3 tour guides (sometime more).  There is always one STEM/Eng, one PreMed and one LA something (not STEM ) and the school lets you select which guide to go with.  So the university knows that it helps to have a tour guide that can actually answer your questions and that your kid can see themselves fitting in better. One of the tours sent 95% of the kids with the two engineering guides (one was also premed), and about 5% with the LA guide.  [/quote]

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