| Great question ... thanks for asking.
I just went on a marathon campus visit trip ... here's where my daughter and I landed on tours. They tended to be too vanilla and repeat this on the web-site and/or in the brochures. As a guide you need to cover the basics but I personally would have really liked to have the guides do 3 things ...
1) Highlight what makes your school unique from all the other schools .... being told the library has x million volumes and that the campus has internet access does little to differentiate it ... but describing the core curriculum (or no core) ... or the multi-school agreement ... or unique location ... does help
2) Describe where the academic sections of campus are and where the residential areas are ... it's not important to know every building but it is helpful to not area of campus (that's the engineering quad, that's freshman housing, the frats are over there, etc).
3) Describe what the kids do for fun and where the families should visit off campus ... where are the hang-outs? where are the funky places? what's walkable to campus?
Again great question! |