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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both my kids had negative reactions to schools that they liked on paper. And sometimes more positive reactions than expected. [b]While we tried to separate things like not relating to the tour guide from other aspects of the school, [/b]sometimes you have to go with gut reactions. Part of this process is to narrow the list and OP it sounds like your DD has knocked a school off the list. Even if it's not for a rational reason (bad virtual tour), just move on. [/quote]

DP just noting -- the bold is important and I don't want it to get lost among all the posts here talking about bad tours, etc.

Yep, some guides are stellar and others are duds, but it is important, as PP says, to try to separate the tour guide/tour quality from every other aspect of the school. We had two tours of the same college about 10 months apart (visited once pretty casually while in town, then later more seriously) and one tour was only so-so while the other was four-star, super enthusiastic, super informative. It really pointed up how the random selection of what student guide you land with on a given day can influence your views of the whole college.

With that said, gut reactions do really count, they just shouldn't be rooted solely in 90-minute campus walking tours and luck-of-the-draw tour guides. That's easier said than done, when one is talking to an impressionable high schooler, I know, but it's worth keeping in mind. 
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