<p>Boston College – tour guide focused on the underage alcohol scene. Thankfully dropping out of the tour group and heading back to the car was my DAUGHTER’S IDEA!</p>
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At Guilford College, there was a Q&A session just with the students, no parents. A lot of questions were about drinking, dating, nightlife, etc. And they were answered honestly. I thought it was wonderful, but if the parents had any idea what the questions were about some of them probably would have freaked out a bit.</p>
<p>You don’t go to many colleges where the student guides say that there is a great LGBT dating scene, admit that alcohol and drug policy enforcement in the dorms is lax, or tell the students where the clubs are.</p>
<p>From the tour guide perspective…pretty funny :)</p>
<p>[Northwestern</a> Tour Guide Video - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>Just crossed off one college because setting up a visit was next to impossible. They do not have online registration for visits and you can only call certain days of the week at certain times. If the visit process is this tough, I can imagine what the rest of the process is like.</p>
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I always imagine being hit on by high school students is the worst part about being a tour guide. </p>
<p>I’d love to be one. I have the voice projection down thanks to theatre, but I’d have to practice my walking backwards.</p>
<p>That Northwestern video was funny and horrifying - at the same time. </p>
<p>I want to know why some parents apparently think it’s ok to ask these young ladies about their sexual histories? It’s a campus tour people! Wow!!</p>
<p>Hey, I met Meredith from that video very briefly when I visited my friend at Northwestern. As a Buckeye fan, I died laughing at “Ann Arbor is a [bleep],” I haven’t heard that one before! </p>
<p>Anyways, that’s really creepy that any mother would actually think that’s a good question ask. I wouldn’t know how to respond to that.</p>
<p>A friend of mine who’s a tour guide at UNC has had to deal with students asking about getting drunk and stuff like that, kind of like the girl who talked about Dillo Day. </p>
<p>Slightly related: Under related videos on that tour guide video is Stephen Colbert’s commencement address at Northwestern. Because I freaking love Colbert, I clicked it. DEFINITELY worth watching.</p>
<p>I couldn’t tell if the Northwestern video’s Ann Arbor comment was good or bad by the bleep. Never been there (U of Michigan), have been on the NU campus and wasn’t impressed with it. For academics et al I’d probably save my money and go to Michigan if I were from there. With a lake between the states and Chicago to get through there isn’t much travel or college hunting between Michigan and Wisconsin.</p>
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Consider that “Ann Arbor” could sound like a woman’s name, and think of words that you could call a woman that would need to be bleeped. (hint, starts with W)</p>
<p>They have t-shirts with that phrase printed on them, with the “w” being the Michigan M flipped over.</p>
<p>As a Michigan alum, I find the whole “Ann Arbor is a “beep”” (beep rhymes with ‘bore’) sort of disturbing. But, I am also not one whom buys the shirts that say “Buck the *uckeyes” (the star is substituting for the letter F in this instance) I don’t mind the friendly back and forth between schools, but I don’t like using profanity to put down someone else’s school.</p>
<p>Plenty of Michigan fans do wear anti-OSU shirts like that, so I guess I’m not surprised when other schools wear the “Ann Arbor” shirt. I don’t like it because I think it’s sort of a slam against women and a slam against my school. However, I saw the t-shirt all over the midwest this summer (even at nice Iowa! ha ha) so I guess that ‘phrase’ is here to stay.
David - how do you post that you’ve never heard that phrase before, but then, 3 hours later, seem to know all about how the t-shirts look? I’m confused.</p>
<p>Because I looked it up.</p>
<p>VT & UVa have all kinds of rivalry t’shirts but thankfully the only one’s I’ve ever seen have been in good fun and ‘clean’. I’ve only seen people wear them at the Turkey Bowl (annual game is always played over T’giving weekend), and I live in an area where people proudly rep both UVa and VT on a daily basis. It’s funny, if you walk into a shop with your team’s hat/t’shirt/hoodie and the clerk is a fan of the other school they will actually give you friendly words about it…“Oh, I was going to give you a discount…but with that shirt, I just can’t.” 
We’re not the SEC so this is not blood-sport and all in good fun. I have ties to both schools so it makes it easier for me to find the levity in it.</p>
<p>I could see how the shirts being described above would take any levity out of the rivalry. That’s just not necessary IMO.</p>
<p>I like the rivalry shirt that says: " Friends don’t let friends go to ( fill in the blank).". Cute and note mean spirited or vulgar.</p>
<p>We were at a college orientation last week and at one group session they asked whether anyone was wearing another school’s shirt. NOT ONE person was, so they gave new t-shirts to the people who sat in the front row.</p>
<p>^ I like that one too MD Mom. Kind of cheeky without being mean.</p>
<p>I have seen the “Muck Fichigan” shirts around before.</p>
<p>Of the multitudes of colleges I visited, only TWO gave me a free t-shirt. One gave me a drawstring bag, and the others just handed out bookstore coupons. I LOVE free t-shirts, I thought it was going to be one of the perks of visiting colleges. </p>
<p>My favorite rivalry thing is a car sticker I saw of a Duke fish eating a UNC fish that was eating an NC State fish. (similar to this - <a href=“http://www.conferancewear.com/fckeditor/admin/itemimages/101311103732-DukeFish.jpg[/url]”>http://www.conferancewear.com/fckeditor/admin/itemimages/101311103732-DukeFish.jpg</a>)</p>
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<p>Western Carolina’s bookstore sells “We’ll Trade Jugs” shirts because of the “Old Mountain Jug” rivalry with Appalachian State.</p>
<p>Many colleges send free T-shirts with offers of admission. They hope you wear it while you are deciding, and then people will come up to you and say good things about that college. </p>
<p>At one admissions open house, a university gave out Tshirts to students who knew answers to questions about that university.</p>
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No luck there either. Appalachian State sent a car sticker, and UNCG sent a lanyard (and an unholy amount of packets)</p>
<p>When I wore my Western Carolina shirt from Open House, I actually received several negative comments. Including one from someone who transferred from there and claimed that they were so bored that they once went to Wal-Mart for fun. It helped with the decision, actually.</p>
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Lenoir-Rhyne gave out water bottles, stress balls, and other random crap. Still no t-shirts.</p>
<p>The ‘giving of the swag’ over the last 10 years had dramatically dropped as universities are watching their budget considerably. Schools used to send elaborate and fun packages with goodies for admitted students. That’s pretty rare these days. Now you log in online to see your offer and get a hard-copy a few days later. Occasionally you’ll get something from the alumni association (different budget), or if you go to admitted students days. However all of these schools are looking for ways to attract students without jacking up tuition because they sent out 7,000 tee shirts to admitted students. The money has to come from somewhere.</p>
<p>Our kids have gotten t-shirts from about half of the schools they toured, only one t-shirt offer in the mail without a tour, a couple lanyard offers, sent in information for one, never got it. Our older two got car window stickers when they sent in their down payments for dorms. We never used the one sticker though because the sticky side was on the wrong side–would have had to put it on the outside of the car window to work.</p>
<p>DS school sends a shirt after deposit is in, then encourages the men to send in photographs of them wearing the shirts. Nice way for the students to get to know each other. They do give out 10% of in the bookstore to all visitors, though.</p>