@Pizzagirl - it’s amazing the influence food can have on a student. Hastings College also had a custom-decorated, oversized chocolate chip cookie for DD after her tour as well as a free t-shirt. The whole drive back to her grandparents, she kept looking at the cookie and saying, “These guys made me a cookie…”
It had an effect on her, even though HC is not one of her top three choices now (it’s in the top five, though, as a fallback.)