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I'll never understand why people put so much weight on the quality of the tour guide.  Why would you assume that the tour guide is representative of the school? Or that a poor tour guide means that the school must be poor.

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Because these are the students that the Admissions Office picked hopefully as being excellent representatives of the school.  If this is the caliber they put forward, maybe it's a one-off but it makes you think.

IMO this is why if it's possible it can be good to visit twice or find ways to engage with other students during your own wandering around campus.  Sit in the cafeteria. Maybe stop a student and ask them for directions, see how they react to you.  Get other perspectives, because if that tour guide is your only impression of the student body it can say something.[/quote]

Agreed. Tour guide is supposed to be a representation of the school. A tour is an important way to get a feel for the campus and the vibe. We had a tour guide at one school who completely lacked energy. She did not use her microphone and we could barely hear her half of the time. There was another tour at the same time and we crossed paths with them on a number of occasions. That tour guide was energetic and engaging. When we could, we would listen to his spiel instead of ours. Unfortunately, we were in a two family tour group and couldn’t peel off. This was at Pitt and we had heard a lot of people liked it, but a good tour would have been necessary to help my kid consider an urban school.

Georgia has already been discussed enough times, so I will contrast Pitt with U Miami. The tour guides there were energetic and engaging. They shared personal stories and made you feel like you could understand what it was like to be a student on the campus.  We had no expectations going in to that tour, but it aligned with some travel. Based on the on campus experience, it became one of DC’s favorite schools.[/quote]

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