Anonymous wrote:I have gotten a giggle everywhere we have gone that clearly has a tradition of hazing the tour guides. At Penn, anyone who knew a tour guide yelled out, “Happy Birthday!” And then would try to get the tour to sing happy birthday to the guide. I laughed every time.

Harvard tour too..... we did the public historical tour (not for prospective students)

Anonymous wrote:Hearing that they had a 'Squirrel watchers watchers club'. Many tours touted their 'Squirrel Watchers" club, but only one had the Squirrel watchers watchers club.

Was this at the University of Maryland? I think we were on the same tour!

Not sunny but sad. When I toured Williams some years back, there was a dad from the tobacco industry who grilled the tour guide on whether students were smoking more or less, what percent of students smoked, what brands, and more.

More recently, we kept a list of things every college had in common:
- Snoop Dog (or whatever he’s calling himself now) had apparently toured most east coast campuses the year my daughter applied. Three years later, when my son applied, Hoodie Allen had just toured all the campuses.
- every college had 20+ a cappella groups
- “Our students are more cooperative with each other, and less competitive, than all those other colleges.”

And a lot lore that I’m forgetting now.

Anonymous wrote:not funny, but sad. JMU, walking around before the tour. We are walking around, and two students are working on a problem saying how hard it is. DD looks at the screen, and says "here id how you do it," and shows them what to do. DD was a HS junior. She will not be going to JMU.

Wow. Just when I thought DCUM couldn’t get more DCUM you proved me wrong

One large state school was clearly having overcrowding issues and steered prospectives toward a model dorm room — which was way too small for the 3 invisible students that supposedly lived there. The door to the room wouldn’t — couldn't — close because the model furniture didn’t fit. I’m pretty sure every parent on the tour (including mine) took a turn trying to close that damn door. The guide was really flustered and tried to joke about it, and move on, but the parents were not giving up and had to be dragged away by their embarrassed kids.

Anonymous wrote:not funny, but sad. JMU, walking around before the tour. We are walking around, and two students are working on a problem saying how hard it is. DD looks at the screen, and says "here id how you do it," and shows them what to do. DD was a HS junior. She will not be going to JMU.

what is truly sad, is what a boastful snob you are.

not funny, but sad. JMU, walking around before the tour. We are walking around, and two students are working on a problem saying how hard it is. DD looks at the screen, and says "here id how you do it," and shows them what to do. DD was a HS junior. She will not be going to JMU.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently a few years back, Bard held accepted students day on 4/20. I'm not sure if that helped their yield, or hindered it. Confused a few parents.

On purpose, right??? Otherwise it would be too weird.

Apparently a few years back, Bard held accepted students day on 4/20. I'm not sure if that helped their yield, or hindered it. Confused a few parents.

Anonymous wrote:we were on a Friday morning tour and a young lady walked by all done up from the night before and a dad in the tour group yelled out "thanks for last night!"

His poor child.

That’s so inappropriate and so funny at the same time. I know someone exactly like that dad. My friend, his wife, refers to him as her youngest child. Her actually youngest child (12) hides the whoopee cushion when he tries to take it on vacation.

Anonymous wrote:we were on a Friday morning tour and a young lady walked by all done up from the night before and a dad in the tour group yelled out "thanks for last night!"

His poor child.

Now you know what it was like to grow up being me. That wasn't my dad but it is entirely like something he would do.

These stories are a laugh and a half. Great thread, OP!

I have gotten a giggle everywhere we have gone that clearly has a tradition of hazing the tour guides. At Penn, anyone who knew a tour guide yelled out, “Happy Birthday!” And then would try to get the tour to sing happy birthday to the guide. I laughed every time.

Anonymous wrote:We were touring Northwestern and when we reached the sandy lakefront area, the tour guide stopped to give her talking point about the "400 clubs on campus and if there isn't a club for what you are interested in, you can always start one." A little brother (maybe 4 or 5 years old) raised his hand and asked if there was a sandcastle club. It was adorable. The tour guide said there wasn't one, but he could certainly start one. It's my favorite moment from all our tours.

Great story. Also, I think a sandcastle club would be aweseome. Nice way to unwind and have a creative outlet!

U of M?

Anonymous wrote:Hearing that they had a 'Squirrel watchers watchers club'. Many tours touted their 'Squirrel Watchers" club, but only one had the Squirrel watchers watchers club.

Cornell?