@Hunt, your comment about asking stupid questions at the info sessions got me fantasizing about a tour & info session like Charlie & The Chocolate Factory – suck the dumb questioners up a big tube of melted chocolate or blow them up like a blueberry. Or just have a slide open under their chair and whisk them away to the nut room. Okay, I am done (yes, off topic!). Carry on. But OP – research online a bit ahead of time so you can try to avoid asking questions in the info session that most people already know the answer to. And if you have questions super specific to your kid’s situation, approach the presenter afterwards.
Someone mentioned earlier that sometimes the kids get to introduce themselves. Yes, but the tour guide isn’t taking notes on your kid. They just want people to be comfortable – sometimes they ask where kids are from and major interests, too. But unless you kid strips naked to swim in a fountain or punches someone during the tour, it isn’t likely anything would be noted.
While it’s much more mainstream in the last decade, middle/senior aged folks sporting dyed hair isn’t a new phenomenon.
One prominent example of this is Mollie Sugden’s character Mrs Slocombe in '70’s and 80’s era Are You Being Served and Are You Being Served Again? Britcom series.
As such, I’m actually surprised there’s still some strong opposition from a few folks on dyeing in unnatural occurring hair colors in 2016…
There are certain venues where wearing visible jewelry…especially those signally preppie or conventional upper/upper-middle class isn’t a good idea or fitting to the prevailing norms of the given event/venue.
One good example of this was an acquaintance who thought it was a good idea to wear formal clothes and fancy pearls more appropriate to an outing at the Met Opera or a 5-star NYC restaurant with a formal dress code to the Pop-punk rock oriented Broadway Play “American Idiot”.
Her colleagues(Biglaw associates) lampooned her for her obliviousness when she came back complaining about finding most of the audience members sporting much more informal clothing ranging from casual jeans/t-shirts to sporting mohawks, ripped up/dirtied clothes, clothing festooned with safety pins*, etc and being stared at them as if she’s a peculiar alien from outer space.
References the old Punk DIY(Do it yourself) fashion subculture prevalent in the '70s and thereafter.
Here in Atlanta in the kids’ large suburban public high school crazy colored hair is ubiquitous. My younger one had hair every color of the rainbow for about a year (all her chore money went towards Manic Panic, lol), and older one had a hair extension that was zebra striped. They’re not the artsy edgy kids either.
There used to be a section of the dress code that said “no unnatural hair color”, it was removed a few years ago because that was a losing battle.
I will tell you getting the Manic Panic out of her hair and going back to “natural” is not as easy as you think it is-D dyed her best friend’s virgin blonde hair with the Manic Panic turquoise, and a year later it’s STILL visible. She had to go to the salon and have the color lifted, which fried her hair and she ended up cutting off a foot of it.
No one from admissions will pay you the slightest attention. At this point, it’s all about your child getting a feel for the college. And of course, her visiting indicates interest. BTW, if you go to a college when a tour isn’t offered, as we had to do, due to scheduling, be sure she signs in at the admissions office.
If you want to flash your boobs or butt there are plenty of other places besides institutions of higher learning on a campus visit. Of course on some campuses the person would fit right in.
Shorts are fine if the butt cheeks are covered but the cleavage thing might need to be addressed LOL. Kids should be a clean version of themselves. if they aren’t going to fit in, they will know it immediately…and so will admissions. You really don’t do yourself any favors by being something you are not. So I guess that contradicts my first sentence…sure if you like the short shorts and boobs hanging out then find a college where that is normative so admissions doesn’t have to pop their eyeballs back in their heads.
Actually, that is what the visit is for. Be yourself and see if that campus fits who you are. There are many colleges that will work and a student can only attend one at a time so the idea is to whittle down the list with the visits. Kids can easily start with 10 or 15 or potentially more if minimal research is done prior and the visits can knock off quite a few. Then there are the ones where they don’t want to get out of the car!
Okay, I am done (yes, off topic!). Carry on. But OP – research online a bit ahead of time so you can try to avoid asking questions in the info session that most people already know the answer to. And if you have questions super specific to your kid’s situation, approach the presenter afterwards.