The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/tour-guides/)
Cornell’s third pandemic-impacted admission cycle kicked off last Monday for Nov. 1 early decision deadline, with standardized testing continuing to be optional for prospective students.
This semester, the University’s Office of Visitor Relations is working diligently to ensure that prospective students will still be able to get a taste of Cornell before deciding where to spend their college years.
Tour groups — we’ve all seen them: clusters of high school students and parents roaming across campus, listening intently to a person at the front who’s walking backwards and smoothly rattling off stories and facts about every aspect of life at Cornell. But there is a lot more to being a tour guide than meets the eye. Here are a few things you might not have known.