Why Your College Tour May Not Include a Dorm Room

Why will some colleges not show you a dorm room on a campus tour, and why is it so hard to get a tour time at all? Mark Stucker says both grind his gears. Hillary Dickman, who works in admissions at Colorado College, takes the counterpoint, and the two of them end up having the first real debate they have had on the air in four years. Along the way: how many tours a college can actually staff during reading season, why there are no morning visits, what to ask when the tour you want is full, why a big open house day is the visit most likely to get you inside a dorm, what 40 people a day walking past their door looks like to the students who live there, and why one college took its floor plans off the web for safety. Plus Mark's car sales analogy, and where the two of them still do not agree. If you are planning visits for this fall or next spring, start with the chapters below. Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 0:32 The two things that grind Mark's gears 2:08 No counselor option on the college visit form 3:01 What an out-of-town college visit actually costs 4:02 The counterpoint: how many tours a college can staff 5:43 Why there are no morning tours 6:16 Plan months ahead and read the visit calendar 7:25 What to ask when the tour is full 9:41 Mark's car sales analogy 10:08 Go to a big open house and you will see a dorm 11:42 Open houses and Tiger Preview Days at Colorado College 14:21 Clusters: multiple bites of the apple on one trip 16:01 Dorm rooms: why students do not want tours in their room 17:51 What you can still see when there is no dorm tour 19:14 Schools that make dorms the selling point, and Duke 20:51 Virtual tours, 360s, and why floor plans came down Hillary Dickman: Colorado College admissions Mark Stucker: Founder and host, 25 years in admissions and college counseling More at https://yourcollegeboundkid.com