| Please know the availability of various curricular/extra curricular options. So many times we have gotten wrong information. One guide told us there was no television production facilities (um, yes there are and there is a whole major/dept. devoted to it). At another school the guide said there were only student run acapella groups for people interested in singing (um, no, there is in fact a faculty directed choir for which you even get credit). The list goes on.
On the same tone (but in a different direction), don't assume that everyone on the tour shares YOUR passion for X major. DS has no interest at all in biology. Most of the tour could have lived without the extensive tour of the bio lab, the visit to favorite bio professor's office, the discussion of how much being a bio major at X college really counts in med school applications.
I'm on a roll now---
Another pet peeve, really talk HONESTLY about the social life. If it is greek centered admit that most of the students pledge. If most of the students go home admit that people make their own fun on the weekends. You end up sounding disingenous when you try to whitewash facts like these.
ABOVE ALL--don't brag that your school is the place for people that don't fit in while in high school. Trust me this is not a positive attribute. |