That’s really too bad that you had such a negative experience. My d is a junior at Bucknell now and is having a fabulous experience at the college and has gotten lots of great opportunities both academically and otherwise. She never attended the gateway program prior to applying though. Just a regular tour and then senior year attended arts merit scholarship weekend which sealed the deal for her. She got to have dinner and mingle with professors and current theatre students and several students presented. It was an inspiring 24 hours and she could really see herself there. My S16 attended Gateway when we were visiting his sister two years later and I will admit that we had some of the same feelings about the day that you did especially about the general sessions. They assume everyone is at the very beginning of the process and they are too long and not specific enough to Bucknell. We attended the management and engineering breakouts and thought they were both well done. The professors /deans who presented were dynamic.Son did not end up applying though. He is now at Lafayette which he loves.