Except we don't have a "main campus" and I'm telling you, quite literally, that the numbers do not back your assertion. There are smaller groups for schools that provide tours (red pine ambassadors, SEBS ambassadors, engineering) but the folks that came to the visitors centers invariably chose the five campus bus tour over walking up and down college Ave. That's why we do one, and not the other. As for, "I can't imagine there are many people that choose to attend a tour of all five campuses", whether you can imagine it or not, we hosted over 40,000 and sometimes have as many as 400 going in and out of the center at once.
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Except we don't have a "main campus" and I'm telling you, quite literally, that the numbers do not back your assertion. There are smaller groups for schools that provide tours (red pine ambassadors, SEBS ambassadors, engineering) but the folks that came to the visitors centers invariably chose the five campus bus tour over walking up and down college Ave. That's why we do one, and not the other. As for, "I can't imagine there are many people that choose to attend a tour of all five campuses", whether you can imagine it or not, we hosted over 40,000 and sometimes have as many as 400 going in and out of the center at once.
And how many of those 40,000 specifically asked to see all 5 campuses? You’re telling me families not interested in agriculture or food sciences request cook? You’re telling me men request Douglass? People interested in non math,engineering or science ask to see Busch? I can keep going. And yes we do have a main campus it’s called college Avenue.
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What I am telling you, is that when given the choice between taking a walking tour of college avenue, or taking a bus tour of the whole campus, the vast majority choose the latter. And yes, students now live across all five campuses, regardless of whether they are STEM majors, SEBS, Douglass, etc., so men do request to live on Douglass, non-STEM majors live on Busch, etc.
Interesting because not only is that direct contradiction of nearly every campus I have visited but also discussions I have had with recent graduates. Family and friends have graduated within last 10 years and recent students to a person travel less in between campuses than when I and siblings attended from lates 80’s to early 2000’s. Many of the recent grads said they never had to step foot on cook/Douglass/Busch their entire time in the banks.
Had to, maybe not. But visitors want to see the whole campus. Don't know what to tell you, but as a recent graduate who was a tour guide, that's the fact.
I guess. But I would think it’s not the majority. Appreciate your insight. But still doesn’t mean that the visitors center should have been built in the yellow lot. Hahahaah
"I would think it's not the majority"
If it *wasn't* the majority, we would have continued doing walking tours on college ave. But it was. So we stopped.