3 Best Questions to Ask on College Tours

Want to make the most out of your time while you are on a college visit? One of the best possible ways is asking meaningful questions. You could probably miss out on the opportunities of getting a real feel for what type of student thrives on that campus if you are not sure of what questions you should ask on your college tour and the information session. That be the case, we have framed a few questions to give you a gist of what you could actually learn in person on a campus visit. /

And, as an aside, when we speak of "better questions," we do not talk about questions that will magically manage to get you into the school of your dreams. We're just suggesting ways you can be a more incisive college observer and walk away with a better sense of fit. Also, the answers can help you eventually in narrowing down your list and writing your essays. /

Best Questions to Ask What type of applicant entices you the most? What are the latest and most invigorating events on campus? What traits do you feel your peers have in common? /

1. What type of applicant entices you the most? This can be a great question for an information session or to an admissions counselor. It gets to the heart of the process—the human part of it all. What students do the get excited about? Asking this, anyhow, is not supposed to unlock some sort of secret formula to get into your dream school. /

2. What are the latest and most invigorating events on campus? This question gives you a pulse of the present day scenario of the campus, and it's a good one for tour guides and admissions officers alike. It could be a dance marathon, a protest about a political issue or a big rival basketball game. Whatever it is, it'll give you an idea of what people do for fun, what they care about, and what catches attention. And if you are fortunate enough for it being a food-based event, remember that free food is universally popular at colleges, so it is perhaps a question not to be missed. /

3. What traits do you feel your peers have in common? Almost anyone been asked this question as a tour guide would wax poetic about their peers--creative, empathetic, social-justice- oriented, deep-thinkers and bold. A tour guide would try to capture the essence of the student body. We often tend to assume that the tour guide is an exemplar of all the people at a college. No doubt, they were selected to represent the school, but they do not represent everyone. Get them to open up about the student body as a whole, not just themselves. /

4. What do they observe as a common denominator? Taken together, these answers portray a picture of the type of student that the college is looking for and those that could thrive there. Given the answers, you can decide if you fit in what they're looking for. If you don’t, do not try to reverse-engineer yourself to fit that mold. But if it seems like you fit in, you'll probably walk away with a clearer vision and a more specific vocabulary to explain what you want in your college applications and throughout the college admissions process. /

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