Maybe this thread ( Off-Topic Discussion from "Colleges Crossed Off List or Moved Up After Visiting" ) will help. I’ve often thought of starting a thread to handle the overflow discussion this great thread generates.
I understand the desire to keep this thread laser-focused on descriptions of visits. However, I also feel a comment or two in response to a tour-comment is not necessarily off-topic. But yes, that slope is slippery and two responses can easily become a twenty-comment string that gets off track.
So here’s what I hope can become a solution. If anyone wants to further discuss something brought up in the original thread, just Quote the original post you’re responding to and post here. And in this thread, there’s no risk of going afoul of the on-topic chaperones.
Maybe this will help. If not, may it die a quick and painless death.