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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not dressed appropriately. Knew nothing about the school except that it was really prestigious. Made no effort to make conversation or ask or answer questions throughout the length of the tour (the student tour guides did an admirable job of trying to include them but eventually gave up). Easily distracted by trivial things. Knowing the basics of how to behave on a tour is really not that hard. And they had no clue. They were not disruptive or rude or anything like that.[/quote]

I'm a prep school + Ivy graduate and I've never worn a suit on a tour; I've seldom encountered an admissions officer or faculty member who was either. (I usually just wear a sweater or maybe at most a collared shirt)

As far as questions/engagement, we've been on some tours with families like that but as often as not it seems to be a comfort level or cultural thing; actually in a few cases my kid has gotten their kid more engaged than the parents seem inclined to be. I don't expect that most schools would count that against them unless they were disruptive in some way.[/quote]

For someone allegedly so well educated you should know better about jumping to bad conclusions. And being contrarian for the sake of arguing. FFS.

Not sure of your gender. For a man, a suit or business casual is fine - suit is definitely not required. I've seen those who are professionally artsy types get away with something more casual, but it is part of their brand. Kid also would look ridiculous and overdone in a suit - I've seen it and it was dumb. The kid I was referring to was basically in sweats. I forget what the mom was wearing - it wasn't egregious and if that was the only thing wrong I wouldn't have noticed, but it was on brand.

Sorry if your "culture" doesn't teach you how to interact normally. By the time you are doing a HS tour, you should be at least halfway decent at that, or be able to fake it. Trinity has countless kids to choose from. Not their job to teach this. Don't have to be a superstar. Just not an outlier.

I'm guessing this wasn't a huge negative, but all things being equal, it probably didn't help.[/quote]

NP.  This is a huge overreaction to that prior post and you seem like a jerk.  Now I can see what you thought a likely normal family was "odd" because it didn't confirm to your precious rich, UES snobbery.[/quote]

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