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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn't you just attend a smaller tour on a non-Open House Day? What did you expect especially after a big, unexpected victory?[/quote]

Because not everyone can take off a day from work to attend a tour during the week. You had to pre-register so they knew how many people would be there.
We did the open house at UMD and while it was crowded they had plenty of tour guides available and each group was only about 20 people.
Also, during regular tour days there is no option to meet with staff about various colleges, financial aid, etc.
If you are going to have an open house at least be prepared for the amount of people. Also, they scheduled it on the same day as several other unrelated events. The food court was a madhouse with a bunch of pre-school kids all over the place. Lines were crazy long and every table taken by little kids not there for the open house.[/quote]

I agree that a school should cut off registration for an event when the crowds get too heavy. Huge touring groups are definitely a turn off, but that should not make or break one's opinion of a school. We had a miserable time at UMD both times we visited over parking - first time, we were given a flyer to park in a free lot, which was tiny and FILLED an hour before the tour started, then had to find our way to a larger pay lot much further away that was also filled - nothing like circling a parking garage for twenty minutes and paying $9 then having to speed walk to a building half a mile away with your kid arriving late because parking is nonexistent. All that being said, while it is frustrating and speaks to a lack of planning at the unversity (second time we toured, no parking flyer at all sent and had to park illegally in order to run in and get one from the admissions staff), it did not color our opinion of the school as a whole. When you attend a huge event, you have to expect there may be some snags.[/quote]

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