I already had a long post on Boulder in the main thread so didn’t want to expand on this, but I have to say that I think they managed this aspect of it extremely well, and of all the tours I’ve been on (the others were all with D19 so far) by far the best organized. Actually everything about admissions seemed highly organized that day but this just worked out so well. They handed each prospective student a postcard of some Boulder scene when they checked in (my kid got one of the football stadium packed for a game under lights, which may have already sparked an interest they never had before haha) then they had maybe 10 guides, each held up their corresponding picture and we followed them out. Groups all looked about the same size. Every group congregated at a different spot and the choreography of getting groups to see everything in turn without bumping into each other (especially for the model dorm room) was pretty impressive. I definitely got the feeling they had practiced this well!! It seemed to be about 10 students per group, so 20-25 with parents which worked well. It was a fairly long tour, about 1.5 hours given the size of the campus and everything they wanted to show us, but it ended exactly when they said it would. It definitely left a good impression on us. (Is everything else there this well organized, who knows, but it’s a hopeful indicator.)
Also interesting was that 5 of our 10 (C26 included) were from the Bay Area. (I know CA is well represented there but that was still surprising. In one of the other groups we saw someone else from C26’s high school.) Of the remainder, one was from New York, one from Chicago area, one from Europe and only 2 from Colorado, but I think it’s much more flexible for residents to get there outside of spring break.