<p>Are there many parents who have manned a table for your kid’s school at a local college fair? There is a Jewish college fair in my area and last year I tried to get my son’s school to participate but there wasn’t enough time for them to arrange it. This year I remembered to ask them a month in advance but neither the school’s admissions office nor the Jewish student group (Hillel) are able to make it (the fair is 3 hours from the school) so I volunteered to do it for them with my wife (the fair is 2 hours on a Sunday so it’s not that big a deal). And I am happy to help them try to attract more Jewish kids from my area, which is why I suggested they participate in the first place.</p>
<p>I know when we were looking at schools with my son, there was at least one school (8 hours away) that had parents instead of someone from the school. Has anyone out there done this for your child’s school, or maybe your alma mater (that is probably more common)?</p>
<p>We are going to meet with the admissions counselor responsible for my area in a couple of weeks to get brochures and info; he is taking us out to dinner, so they do appreciate my offer. Hopefully it will work out well. Just wondering how common it is.</p>
<p>I’ve never done it myself, but I have been to college fairs where some of the booths were staffed by parents. There didn’t seem to be anything weird or uncomfortable about it.</p>
<p>I do it for my son’s school and have been for several years. Sometimes I don’t feel like I have all of the answers but if I don’t know something I just refer them to a resource that can. All of the materials are sent to me, and, by now, I feel like I can represent the school pretty well.</p>
<p>I was an alumni admissions rep for my undergrad for about 7 yrs, which involved one big regional college fair and a handful of prospective interviews a yr.</p>
<p>Actually my daughter was most interested last year in a college that had a parent representative. He was very enthusiastic and also, being a Dad, he was more comfortable drawing out my daughter than many of the young admission counselors who definitely didn’t have any experiences of parenting a shy teenager. She is going to apply to that college and it is high on her list</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think it was too odd, though if it was a school ds was really interested in he would want face time with a regional adcom. Sounds fun, though!</p>
<p>I think it is very common at the small fairs at local high schools.</p>
<p>I always prefaced with my position as a volunteer alum because I know my sales skills were very different from the professionals. I was focused on fit and not on stat selling the school.</p>
<p>You’ll do great! As a parent, I prefer the volunteers to the admin staff. I believe it shows how the school has truly inspired folks.</p>
<p>There’s a big regional college fair at the community college down the road from me, was today in fact and they had about 170 schools represented from the community college itself up to the Ivy’s. There was a mix of alumni reps and admissions staff, Harvard was alums, Princeton was current students, PSU was alums. Mostly the job at these fairs is to pass out info, answer questions as able and get kids to sign up cards to be added to the mailing lists.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies. I guess it’s pretty common. It should be interesting, hopefully I can interest a few kids in going to my son’s school.</p>