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<p>At the Yale tour, someone asked why Yale rather than Harvard, and received a thoughtful answer. (Essentially that Harvard students feel proud of where they are, but Yale students love Yale.)</p>
<p>So at the Harvard tour, I ventured to ask, why Harvard rather than Yale. The answer was kind of it’s a matter of taste, but another parent piped up, “If you go to Yale, you have to live in that cesspool, New Haven.”</p>
<p>I got to say, “Uh, I live in New Haven.”</p>
<p>Abashed he had to say, “Well, you have better pizza.”</p>
<p>Some people don’t think about to whom they may be talking. </p>
<p>Very funny on topic video: [Northwestern</a> Tour Guide Video - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>“So how strict are the bars about fake IDs?” - From a parent!</p>
<p>I went to college in the late 70s/late 80s and even we had 24 hour visitation. I look forward to stupid questions when we start the college tours. lol</p>
<p>@whenwhen I don’t understand…that’s a legit question.</p>
<p>At the UC San Diego tour, a parent asked “Why is this such a big party school?” Um, that’s San Diego State. </p>
<p>@whenhen, when a kid asks that it’s because they are hoping they are lenient. When a parent asks, it’s because they are hoping they’re strict.</p>
<p>I have no stories to contribute but I have to tell you this is one of the best threads I have seen in a long time. Really enjoying this!</p>
<p>I was on a tour at Loyola (Baltimore), and they had a couple dozen of us crammed into a dorm room. A mom asked something that I didn’t hear, and the student sitting on the bed said, “I’m not allowed to answer that question.” The tour guide confirmed that they weren’t supposed to discuss “that”. Naturally, my radar went up, so I sidled up to the mom and asked her what on earth she had asked. Her question: “What do students do for fun?” I guess Loyola has dry dorms, bu the apartments have parties, and it’s a “bar school”, which means kids go off campus to drink in bars. I wasn’t put off so much that college kids drink–who knew, right?, but that the school clearly went to great lengths to keep that fact quiet.</p>
<p>Although there were many other things I liked about Loyola, I was glad my D picked elsewhere.</p>
<p>FWIW, Notre Dame has only single sex dorms and limited visitation hours - it is intended to reduce distractions during study/quiet hours.</p>
<p>I loved the Chocolate Milk story!</p>
<p>I always hate the parents who ask (repeatedly, in front of a tour group of 30-40) questions specific to their child: what math class would Junior take if he completes Calc BC this year? Suzie takes allergy shots every Thursday - can she have this done at the Campus Health Center? Will Billy have a chance to study abroad in Zimbabwe as a Poli Sci major during the Fall of 2015?</p>
<p>These are typically the parents who crowd around the tour guide and don’t let any students get close enough to hear.</p>
<p>At Boston University: “Does BU provide crossing guards to help students cross the street?” (Commonwealth Avenue)</p>
<p>At McGill University in Montreal: “Why are so many people here speaking French?” (An American parent)</p>
<p>@tom Joke’s everyone else. Everybody knows Montrealeans don’t speak French.</p>
<p>Touring wake forest,
The tour guide is telling us how they randomly match up people for dorms but do ask them a few questions to put similar likes and dislikes together. The tour guide said “you know if you smoke or don’t smoke or other personal preferences”. One parent immediately asked “this is a smoke free campus right?” The tour guide responded saying “No, the Reynolds family donated much of the land for wake forest and which had been a tobacco plantation so they made sure you are allowed to smoke on campus but as long as its 25 feet away from buildings” you should have seen the parents face.</p>
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“Could you give me many, many details on a tiny selective interdisciplinary program, even though most of the 300 people in this information session have no interest in it whatsoever?” What really gets me is when the admissions person answers the question, at length.</p>
<p>Wow, these are great stories. Thanks for posting them.</p>
<p>I wish I had an anecdote to add. I’m trying to think of one but I guess we’ve been very lucky on all of our tours. No dumb or odd questions that I can recall. Very fortunate, I guess, to have always fallen in with a good crowd. No chocolate milk stories. ;)</p>
<p>Also, as I stated in the “Cross Off” thread, if a question is ultra specific – such as … “My child got a x on their AP test and wants to major in such and such, should they take Intro to Bio with professor so and so first or can they register for the honors lab class instead? – that is a pain.</p>
<p>But I don’t mind if a parent or student asks “Have you or your friends taken advantage of AP credit toward your degree? How welcoming do you feel the school and the professors are toward that?” Or “Do you know anyone in the Honors program? Do they enjoy it and feel it is useful or do you think there is little or no difference compared to the general student population?”</p>
<p>I went to a couple of orientation sessions (one was student led, one administration hosted) and the same mom asked the same question in both—her child was on a restricted medication where he needed to see a doctor every month to have the prescription updated and refilled, and how could that be done on campus? She got the same answer in both sessions, btw, but I felt badly for her child that she was airing this in public.</p>
<p>The other question that raised my eyebrows was a father who asked if firearms and knives were allowed to be kept in the dorms!</p>
<p>I don’t think there were any really stupid questions at either of the two tours I went on. I know my tour guide at Umich was from NYC, and my dad put her on the spot and asked why she would go to Umich when she could go to NYU, and I was mortified-- but it was a legitimate question and she had a great answer. My dad didn’t know people outside Michigan are really all that interested in Umich besides the sports, or that there was really any real reason to pick one college over another.</p>
<p>This thread has my dying guys hahahah. I can’t believe all these questions, all the tour questions i’ve heard are so boring compared to these.</p>
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In this area, that’s a legitimate question since so many students are hunters. S1 does have his hunting rifle at school but he lives in an apartment.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of knives being banned in any dorm around here. Firearms would be allowed in apartments, but not currently on any campus I know of here. Although, it is being discussed.</p>