[civsa] Dismissing Tours for Large Events

[Risa Farrell]

During our busy seasons (we have two sessions of about 350 guests), guests
listen to a 30 minute info session and, during that time, the College
Ambassadors come in quietly and scope out the room to divide it up equally
among themselves. It's a "guesstimation" system, but each College
Ambassador stands next to a section of the room that represents roughly
25-30 guests so groups tend to be pretty equal. Once the info session is
over, the CAs take their groups out one by one and begin their tours.

Cheers,
Risa

*Risa Farrell  *
Campus Tours Coordinator, Admissions Officer
UC San Diego - Office of Admissions & Relations with Schools
Office: (858) 82*2-1684* <%28858%29%20822-1684>| Email:
*rmfarrell at ucsd.edu <rmfarrell at ucsd.edu>*Reserve a Campus Tour!
http://admissions.ucsd.edu/tours/index.html
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On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Shanna Pomager <Shanna.Pomager at du.edu>
wrote:

> I assign students and parents to tours and put the name of the tour group
> (a ski resort) on their name tag. The guides stand in the middle of our
> green with signs (in alpha order) and families find their guide. I can then
> be strategic in my assignments, so I put all of the engineers in one group
> and make sure they go through the engineering building and so on. It takes
> about 15 minutes for families to use the restroom and find their group. It
> works well, but it takes planning and the use of mail merge. J
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> *Shanna Pomager*
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> *Sr. Associate Director of Admission & Campus Visit Manager*
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> *From:* listserv [mailto:listserv-bounces at civsa.org] * On Behalf Of *Anne
> Johnson
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 08, 2017 9:37 AM
> *To:* listserv at civsa.org
> *Subject:* [civsa] Dismissing Tours for Large Events
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> Hello all,
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> I am wondering if anyone has any great ways to dismiss tours for large
> events. For our spring events, we typically have 500 guests in each
> session. I hate counting people off tour tours because it feels so
> impersonal and unorganized (although it is the quickest and easiest way we
> have tried). Does anyone have an alternative method that has worked well?
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> Thank you for any insight you can share.
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> *Anne Johnson*
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> Assistant Director of Campus Visits½Office of Admission
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