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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a college tour guide and we occasionally had middle schoolers on our tours.  We're used to it.[/quote]

Official ones? [/quote]

Yes, I was employed by the admissions Office.  The majority of kids were Juniors or Seniors but we had Freshman sometimes and a handful of 8th graders come through. We'd ask the kids to introduce themselves so we could tailor our tours to the groups.[/quote]

Interesting. What kind of reaction did those students get? From you, from the other parents?[/quote]

No reaction.  We were always friendly to our groups and I never noticed a parent or kid reacting to another kid.  Frankly, I think it would have inappropriate for another parent or potential student to make any comments and we would have shut that down.

We had some pushy parents but the kids were never rude to us. I completely lost track of how many tours I gave but at least 100.  I can still do my intro spiel from memory.[/quote]

Really helpful, thanks. I have a 7th grader who's pushing to visit some colleges next summer. It feels silly to me, but maybe we've cave and try one.[/quote]

Same former tour guide.  It might feel a little silly but it also might be a sort of aspiration/motivation thing.

My job was to be welcoming, friendly, and informative and I'm sure that's likely to be the case everywhere else.  We were taught to gently deflect on some things (most commonly  people trying to quiz us if their kids' stats would get them in). A few of my tour guide colleagues actually went on to be admissions officers.[/quote]

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