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Anonymous wrote:My husband and daughter were on a tour of Yale with a married couple of prospective students, both 18. They asked the tour guide several very specific, nuanced questions about married housing for freshman. The tour guide later told my husband that he’d never been so caught off guard on a tour.

This actually is not funny. It’s an end run around financial aid. If married, your parents income does not get counted. So if they were a platonic couple hoping for a separate bedroom and small living room (so they could have two beds), those questions make sense. Total scam. Hope the guide let his supervisor know.

Two platonic kids get married so one or both gets more financial aid? That sounds less likely than it being a real relationship.

Anonymous wrote:I thought my oldest’s head was going to explode any time someone asked about the cost of laundry. He complained endlessly about it for months. How he didn’t want to go to school with numbnuts.

Serious question, do some schools charge for laundry? At the schools my 3 kids went to laundry is free. Is free laundry only a private school thing?

I thought my oldest’s head was going to explode any time someone asked about the cost of laundry. He complained endlessly about it for months. How he didn’t want to go to school with numbnuts.

Anonymous wrote:My husband and daughter were on a tour of Yale with a married couple of prospective students, both 18. They asked the tour guide several very specific, nuanced questions about married housing for freshman. The tour guide later told my husband that he’d never been so caught off guard on a tour.

This actually is not funny. It’s an end run around financial aid. If married, your parents income does not get counted. So if they were a platonic couple hoping for a separate bedroom and small living room (so they could have two beds), those questions make sense. Total scam. Hope the guide let his supervisor know.

Toured Georgetown with my daughter in spring '23 and my G'town prof SIL said as she dropped us off, "Get ready to hear some epic flexing from these kids." While assembling for the tour, the first thing we heard was another (17yo?) kid loudly and stagily proclaiming to his family "U Chicago is my top choice for law school, but I'm considering coming here for undergrad..." I dragged my daughter into his group just to listen to more from this idiot and his family. They didn't disappoint.

Along the lines of the aforementioned ski club, any time anyone we know mentions law school, one of us will say "U Chicaaaaago is my top choice for law school" in the most grandiose voice possible.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there are any truly fine hotels in Ann Arbor even today. I might try "The Graduate" chain's redo if I had hopes. The Providence version of that hotel chain was nice.

We stayed at Ann Arbor's "The Graduate" last March - awful! We still joke about how bad it was!!

I liked it

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Anonymous wrote:We were all set to stop by Univ of Richmond on the way back to NOVA from North Carolina this summmer, but as soon as we drove onto campus, DD saw the spider banners and flipped out. “Nope nope and nope! Absolutely not!”
Huge fear of spiders.
It’s such a beautiful campus and I’m sure students who go there love it, but we didn’t even park the car! 🚗

I have 2 daughters who would have loved Richmond, but they had the same reaction to the spider banners. I sent the UR president an email telling him the spider thing was probably turning off a lot of potential recruits. Got a nice reply saying yeah, they don’t really care.

That is bizarre.

Anonymous wrote:We took a tour of Mitchell College, and we knew within minutes of arriving it wasn’t for my child but we decided to stick it out, mostly because the tour was a surreal fever dream of an experience. The guide was being shadowed by a trainee who apparently thought “shadowing” meant repeating everything the experienced guide said verbatim right after she said it. Every. Single. Word. This guy even repeated her answers to our questions. And she acted like him echoing her for a solid 30 minutes wasn’t the most bizarre thing on earth, like this was a totally normal way to train someone. I have never seen anything like it.

This is The Office level material

Anonymous wrote:We were all set to stop by Univ of Richmond on the way back to NOVA from North Carolina this summmer, but as soon as we drove onto campus, DD saw the spider banners and flipped out. “Nope nope and nope! Absolutely not!”
Huge fear of spiders.
It’s such a beautiful campus and I’m sure students who go there love it, but we didn’t even park the car! 🚗

I have 2 daughters who would have loved Richmond, but they had the same reaction to the spider banners. I sent the UR president an email telling him the spider thing was probably turning off a lot of potential recruits. Got a nice reply saying yeah, they don’t really care.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern Tourguide talked incessantly about the ski club and how great they were. Every question was answered with, I don't know, I've heard good things about that, but there's an amazing ski club. None of the parents and none of the kids on the tour gave a sh:t about the ski club. Became a family joke for us, whenever you don't know the answer, say, "I don't know, but there's this amazing ski club." Still cracks us up

That’s weird — is there skiing near northwestern? My kid is there and I’ve never heard anything about this.

Low-grade skiing in WI within a few hours, but no, not really.

Best skiing in Midwest is in the Traverse City area of Michigan…not too far from Chicago.

I was eager for daughter to like Princeton, but she thought it might be too small. She didn’t want a school where if you did something embarrassing, everybody would soon know about it. As we wandered around the campus, we ran into the same lady 3 times. That was the end of Princeton for her.

We took a tour of Mitchell College, and we knew within minutes of arriving it wasn’t for my child but we decided to stick it out, mostly because the tour was a surreal fever dream of an experience. The guide was being shadowed by a trainee who apparently thought “shadowing” meant repeating everything the experienced guide said verbatim right after she said it. Every. Single. Word. This guy even repeated her answers to our questions. And she acted like him echoing her for a solid 30 minutes wasn’t the most bizarre thing on earth, like this was a totally normal way to train someone. I have never seen anything like it.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern Tourguide talked incessantly about the ski club and how great they were. Every question was answered with, I don't know, I've heard good things about that, but there's an amazing ski club. None of the parents and none of the kids on the tour gave a sh:t about the ski club. Became a family joke for us, whenever you don't know the answer, say, "I don't know, but there's this amazing ski club." Still cracks us up

That’s weird — is there skiing near northwestern? My kid is there and I’ve never heard anything about this.

Low-grade skiing in WI within a few hours, but no, not really.

Maybe the (amazing) ski club arranges a bus trip to Colorado over spring break? It's about a 16-hour drive.

Anonymous wrote:DC very particular about library lighting. Too bright is apparently disqualifying.

I substitute taught high school and middle school last year and the kids would be weirded out if I turned on all of the lights. Many teachers have lamps around the room or just turn on half the overhead lights.

Keep these coming, please!