> I'd like to know what it is about a particular college tour that makes a school seem more or less interesting to you? Is it how genuine the tour guide seems? You can get most of the stats and everything from a book. What can a tour guide do to attract students like yourself?

I know you were asking Kikipeg, but here are my two pesos. The tours ment nothing to me, my parents liked them. I visted Carnege Mellon, Elmira, University of Wyoming, St. Johns, and several others. I really don't think any of the tours affected my opion at all. I was raised as a military brat (U.S. Air Force) and have been on Base tours, elementary and high school tours, and other such tours when ever I moved (every 3-4 years). I develepoed a sorta internal alarm (or B. S. dectector as I call it) and it when off loudly at each and every college tour I was on (and also when I was read the pamphlets, 80% of all statitics are ussless after all ;}). So why did I chose to come to Elmira? On one of the tours I had of Elmira there was a quasi-protest going on. The tour guides wouldn't talk about it but there was deffinatly something going on. At all the other colleges I saw no sign that any of the students were involved in stuff like that. It sorta clicked with what I thought college was supposed to be like.

I don't know if that helped. So it goes.

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