Best Parent tips for College Visits

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This thread has the best tips.

What did you do (unintentionally) that embarrassed your child on school tours?

I wore clicky shoes. How could I?! They weren’t heels, just hard soled. They clicked on the info session stairs, the concrete sidewalk between buildings, the tiled floors of the academic buildings, on the linoleum of the dorm hallways, the floor of the cafeteria where we ate lunch. My daughter shot me looks all morning that ranged from exasperated to angry to just so-done-with-you-mom. I have henceforth worn soft soled sneakers and told all my friends to do the same. What have you done?