Since we live overseas, we attended a couple of big college fairs hosted by the US Embassy. Some schools sent AOs, some sent alumni/current students. The AOs we met were all helpful and enthusiastic about their schools, but we hit a couple of doozies among the alumni representatives. Hamilton was the most memorable - when we asked what distinguished Hamilton among the NESCAC schools, he responded that it must be the fact that Hamilton was at the bottom, both academically and athletically - a born salesman!
Now that this thread is rolling, who’s up for reviving the thread on the stupidist reasons why our kids won’t look at certain colleges? I see hints of this theme in some of the earlier posts here.