<p>Just for fun, I would like to know the most stupid questions you have heard asked on college tours. I heard some really stupid ones but the following is my favorite:</p>
<p>On the tour at Colgate University, (for those who do not know -- hours from any real city), one parent asked if most of the students go home on weekends.</p>
<p>Stupidest question I heard someone ask was whether or not there is ever any underage drinking among the students. Like the tourguide is going to say if there is.</p>
<p>At UC Davis a parent asked if water was available to the students. Without missing a beat or laughing out loud. the guy replied that yes, water was available on campus and that students were allowed to drink as much as they wanted. No restrictions at all.</p>
<p>I'm not entirely sure, but I think the parent meant to ask whether <em>bottled</em> water was readily available, but it didn't come out that way.</p>
<p>^^Glad to know that there's enough water for showers, too! LOL.</p>
<p>My friend always asked if the school was a pot school or a beer school. English humour.</p>
<p>LOL, Coureur -- I think the guide should have just said "yes... right over there" and pointed to the water</a> tower. </p>
<p>(For those not familiar with the campus, the UC Davis campus water supply is stored in a 200,000 gallon tank atop a 150 foot tower, which is a campus landmark visible from the freeway - kind of hard to miss).</p>
<p>Any question about whether or not advising/heathcare services EXISTED.</p>
<p>On a tour of a dorm room at Wash U, a student asked how often someone came in and changed the sheets. All of the moms on the tour, including the student's own, laughed out loud.</p>
<p>^^^ I think that is the best one I have heard! :)</p>
<p>At an all woman's college, a mom with her D asked our tour guide "so, do the, um, you know, um, lesbian girls have their own dorm?" Bravo to the tour guide, who without skipping a beat said, "Nope, we share all the dorms."</p>
<p>One mom asked what would happen if her son were to fail out of one of his classes at Yale.</p>
<p>I got asked by one mom on the tour what time curfew was.</p>
<p>^HaHAHAHAHAH. </p>
<p>I started getting grilled on my stats, numbers, etc. when a parent broke away from the tour and started talking to college students.</p>
<p>The best one I ever heard was a mom ask "what is the drinking age in North Carolina"? The guide politely answered that is was 21 in the whole US.</p>
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Stupidest question I heard someone ask was whether or not there is ever any underage drinking among the students. Like the tourguide is going to say if there is.
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<p>I have heard variations of this one on many tours. The guide always says the same thing at every school tour I have been on. There are always those that will drink, but we have plenty of other activities for those that are not interested in this. Our campus does not allow those under 21 to drink. Nobody has to participate in drinking if they don't want to do so, and there are plenty of other things to do on campus.</p>
<p>We toured a number of east coast colleges for DS 4 summers ago. At virtually every tour, we ran into the same mother/father/daughter. The daughter asked the dumbest questions at every single college. Our favorite? At GWU, she asked if the dorm rooms were coed. Just after freshman convocation, at the President's receptionon my son's first day at an Ivy League, we noticed the family yet again.</p>
<p>^^^ Wait a second ... the dumb question girl was accepted into an ivy? Imagine that.</p>
<p>"There are no stupid questions." Only stupid people.</p>
<p>636</p>
<p>Ooops ... in case someone wants to interpret my comment as anti-ivy ... it's not!! It's just that some of the kids (and their parents) on this website are so sure that the only way to get into an ivy is to walk on water ... but even ivies have all sorts!</p>
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^^^ Wait a second ... the dumb question girl was accepted into an ivy? Imagine that.
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<p>I have come across many people with "book smarts", yet they have no "common sense", so why not!</p>
