BAD Visit, Need to Vent

skrlvr
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:19:38 +0000

For some reason, as I said earlier, son DOES still like this school. It was one of his top 2.



I think before any final decision is made, you need to find out why your son still likes the school. You seem to have been more put off by this whole experience than he is (and he’s the one who had to put up with all of it). There might be good reasons why he wants to go there that trump his bad experience with the host.

Do you really think that what happened in the admissions office is really indicative of what would happen in an academic class? I teach at a university and I have no idea what goes on at the admissions desk. The people who hire in academic departments are not the same people who hire at the admissions desk, etc. I don’t see how what goes on at the admissions office would necessarily tell anything about what goes on in the classroom.

Here’s another example. There’s a lot of underage drinking in the dorms. You might be appalled at the presence of underage drinking and that there are students at the university that do this. Does this suggest anything about the quality of teaching at the university?