Bad Harvard Tour Experience

EnoughAlready
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:14:59 +0000

It was the info session that really turned my son off. The gentleman who gave the session spoke as if people should be feeling lucky just to be sitting in one of the hallowed halls listening to him. There was a guy sitting behind us who had already been accepted by HYP, asking questions just to show everyone how great he was (it is completely unclear what an accepted student was doing there). The tour was a bit “meh”, and as danstearns said, we couldn’t go to any freshman dorms. In spite of all this, my son entered the class of 2011 and absolutely loved his 4 years at Harvard.

That said, the Hahvahd tour (which used to be called the Unofficial Tour, right?), drives students completely nuts. It is VERY entertaining, but the guides often make things up, and they talk at the top of their lungs. Still, I once took my BU foreign students there for a tour, and we had a blast.