| Ok-I just erased a rant as we went on a tour today at a school that I hoped my S would like. The tour was so bad that he wanted to leave after 20 minutes. We stayed and did most of the open house and the impression improved-but probably not enough.
SHOW the facility-we were taken into the entrance and talked at (there were only 10 in our group) in building after building. Never actually saw the new pool, the new theater, the student center. S pointed out the amount of time we stood and the guide talked at us was long enough to have walked through the facility.
If you cannot show dorm rooms-how about large pictures-
really big ones that show what different rooms look like? Juniors in HS need to see what all of this about-don't assume that they have ever seen a dorm room.
It is not a great thing but the truth is that the tour person creates the first impression that these young folks have of your school and parents often find it hard to change their minds after. |