<p>I would like my child to choose USC but she had a bad experience at the explore day. The current student who showed her around was unprofessional and did not take her job seriously at all. For one thing, That student combined her group with 2 other groups and just went to the dorms and asked people if they were willing to show their rooms... </p>
<p>We were almost sold right after the lecture in the science dept and that student session ruined it all. A bad experience can not be taken back and my child chose to go somewhere else even though she has presidential scholarship.....</p>
<p>I wish so much that explore day ended at the very interesting lecture and we would be a Trojan family..................</p>
<p>Collegeproject, forgive me… but you’re saying your daughter loved USC, loved her future department, and was given over $80,000 to attend, and yet because one girl didn’t appeal to her on the campus tour…she is turning down the school? I am sorry, but I don’t buy this. Could she have had her mind set on some <em>other</em> school, or dislike SC for other reasons, but needed a reason to turn down USC’s merit offer?</p>
<p>If not, it seems a most rash and whimsical decision (considering the merit aid and strength of the academics she’s tossing). Is she normally more mature? I’m not sticking up for a tour guide who may have been inappropriate, but it seems like a poor reason to base one’s ultimate college choice. Of course, college selection can make everyone crazy. Sounds like you preferred USC, so I wonder if she needed to give you a reason to say no? .</p>
<p>That’s too bad. We went to the admitted students reception last weekend and every student and person we talked to, or heard speak, at USC (and there were many!) made a very good impression… It’s hard not to be influenced by this type of thing when you are there to see the college and form an opinion. Hopefully your daughter made the right choice for her.</p>
<p>“Oh hey Mom my tour guide during Explore Day was totally not profesh - she actually combined two groups and asked students if they were willing to show us around their dorms. How ridiculous is that??!! Despite the fact that USC is clearly an incredible university, I cannot let myself attend a college in which a single person out of the school’s 30,000 students fails to give a proper tour of the school. Yes, that sounds rather reasonable, don’t you agree mother dearest?!”</p>
<p>I’m sorry that your daughter decided not to choose USC, but I have to agree with everyone else that based on what you said, it doesn’t seem like this would have been the underlying reason that she didn’t choose USC. Maybe she didn’t want to go to USC and didn’t want to disappoint you.</p>
<p>Maybe you should talk with your daughter more about why she doesn’t want to go to USC and see if there’s some underlying reason she doesn’t want to go. If you don’t mind me asking, what school is she planning on attending? Maybe there’s something she sees in that school that might make it a better fit for her.</p>
<p>i’ve had a friend who did something like that (left his Explore kids with someone else) and it was because he had two midterms the next day and really needed to study. It is sort of degrading to be treated like children who need to be babysat, but there was a reason for it. I know that the Explore program was running out of male hosts, so they would randomly ask students an hour beforehand to host, and sometimes it’s just really bad timing. It’s unfortunate that your daughter had a bad host experience, but I assure you that USC is the happiest campus I’ve been to and going here has been the best decision of my life.</p>
<p>This is distressing to read, especially since the student has been given such a fine scholarship. </p>
<p>May I suggest having your daughter go to the Facebook Class of 2014 page and read the impressions of other students who have attended Explore sessions? Comments have been positive and enthusiastic. </p>