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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't be serious.  That's the tour guide equivalent of cocktail party question.  Where do you live/work.  Good lord.[/quote]

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We asked the question.  Didn’t really care what the answer was.  Had one kid that came across as not very bright and stated he was going to Stanford.  That was surprising.[/quote]

What wouldn’t have been surprising?? What’s surprising is thinking that asking a student tour guide what College/University they are attending during a fall tour will net you an answer that tells you anything meaningful about the school or the student.

These guides are not your friends or the kids of your friends.  They are serving a role for the school to facilitate group tours and answer questions about the school from a student point of view.  [b]Their personal business is just that, their personal busine[/b]ss.[/quote]

Not true.  When they apply to be a tour guide, they are putting themselves up front as a [b]representative for a school.[/b] Asking about college they might be attending is - as someone else said above - expected cocktail party chatter.  And if touring a school, I would certainly want to find out as much as possible about college opportunities.  If the student guide doesn't like it, there are many good suggestions about about how to deflect.  Or do something other than tours if that worked up over the issue (I think only mom is worked up).[/quote]

As a representative of the school.  Thus ask questions about said SCHOOL.  This is a school tour/visit not a cocktail party.[/quote]

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