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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wanted to comment that with all these colleges’ marketing budgets, it is baffling that so many can’t get the tour and info session consistently right. Should be such an easy thing to fix.

I have been on several tours where you could not hear the tour guide some or part of the time. Unacceptable.

I have been on tours where the group never enters a university building (this is post-Covid) except the admissions office. Unacceptable.

And on and on…

Same goes for admitted student days. Both parents can’t come because you are all booked up (top SLAC) so the donut-hole family can’t decide together on a 90k investment? Unacceptable.

Stuffing parents into a crowded room where they can barely move and can’t find where the coffee is because they can’t see it (top 20 National university)? Unacceptable.

This little things matter…

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I feel the same way. It is like when I go to a hotel and it feels like the person who designed the bathroom has never used a bathroom before.

Tell me what makes you unique.
Train your tour guides.
Make it so we can hear tour guides.
Let us go in buildings.
Tell us how to eat a meal in a dining hall (extra points for a discount!)
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Huge pet peeve when I can't hear the tour guide because they talk while facing forward and walking. They need to be trained to stop, turn around and face group before starting to talk. [/quote]
The tour guides at Penn State did the tour entirely walking backwards while speaking to us,  except when crossing the street.  Impressive.

But, yea, agree, some of the tours were annoying because I couldn't hear. They need to have a mic or something.[/quote]

One of the tours - Wesleyan? - wouldn't talk at all between stops because they weren't allowed to talk walking backwards. It was so odd. 
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