<p>Some schools pay their tour guides as a work-study job, others have a a group of students who give tours voluntarily. I'm curious about what bearing anyone thinks that might have on the search process.</p>
<p>Who gives a better tour: paid or unpaid? Would you think differently of a school that pays their guides in any way?</p>
<p>I don’t think this is a good predictor. It’s more about how the guides are chosen and trained, and whether giving tours is a popular enough activity that the people in charge have a good pool to choose from. I’ve had great and mediocre tours from paid and unpaid guides.</p>
<p>They should be paid, it’s a lot of work.</p>
<p>Tours are unpaid at my school, at least until you’ve done some ridiculous number of them, and its still super competitive to be a tour guide…they always have about 3 times as many people try out as they can actually take.</p>
<p>At my child’s school, they’re paid, but only paid $8.50 an hour. That’s a pretty exhausting job for $8.50.</p>
<p>Unpaid doesn’t seem fair… And $8.50 seems cheep for walking backwards for an hour.</p>
<p>Why shouldn’t they be paid? Why would I think less of them? Can the OP explain his or her reasoning behind unpaid being better?</p>
<p>Possibly what the OP was getting at:
unpaid - doing it b.c they love the school
paid - doing it b.c they want money</p>
<p>My personal opinion:
unpaid - they love the school, people person, and something fun to do
paid - love the school, people person, something fun to do, and it’s college most ppl are short on cash</p>