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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Ask These Questions on a College Tour [Watch (HLS stream): Ask These Questions on a College Tour](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BXa9UgPg.m3u8) (1:20)  _Published 2016-10-04. College tour guides talk frequently asked questions, questions they wish you would avoid, and questions you're probably not asking when touring a campus._ --- Jul 27, 2023 8:54 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [This is How You Tour a College Campus](/video/0cGNorJd/) ### This is How You Tour a College Campus [Make the Most of a College Campus Tour](/video/Ub0Jc1zL/) ### Make the Most of a College Campus Tour [The Questions Americans Asked](/video/mrN4JerJ/) ### The Questions Americans Asked --- ## Transcript The best questions are really any questions at all. Asking more questions are a more pointed questions about the culture of the school and the culture of the campus. Unless you pick the brain of a current student, you're not gonna find out until you're there. I love talking about why I chose Fordham, I think that can really lend a personal insight to the college. A lot of the times they don't really think about police college. They don't ask Well, what are the numbers for kids getting into their first choice of graduate school? And what about job percentages straight out of college? I really wish that they would ask about the students in general and a little bit more about their own experiences at the school. I think it's important to get a real student perspective. Of what's great about the school. Parents definitely are very curious about the security around us. Then there was also one parent who asked about the menu in the dining hall and asked if the kids got to pick their own menu. One of the most awkward questions I guess, that I can be asked personally is What my GPA is or what my high school stats were when I apply to schools. There's no really bad questions but if peeks an interest even a little bit I'd say to ask more about it. Don't be shy. Never be shy. Ask as many as you want yeah. [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ask These Questions on a College Tour","description":"College tour guides talk frequently asked questions, questions they wish you would avoid, and questions you're probably not asking when touring a campus. ","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BXa9UgPg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-04T17:16:38.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BXa9UgPg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/BXa9UgPg/","duration":"PT1M20S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/BXa9UgPg/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```