{"id":14,"date":"2011-11-09T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:27:44","slug":"college-fairs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/college-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"College Fair Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOGISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li>Arrive at least 30 minutes early to give yourself time to &#8220;set up.&#8221; Display your materials in an attractive fashion on the table or desks provided and place &#8220;Please Do Not Remove&#8221; stickers on the books (viewbook and catalog.) You may give the material away at the end of the fair.<\/li>\n<li>Please do not mail the inquiry cards back to us individually.\u00a0 Use the postage-paid envelope we supply.\u00a0 Return the cards and the table banner as soon as possible so that we may begin follow-up with interested students.<\/li>\n<li>Please take a few minutes to fill out the evaluation form. It should be mailed with the inquiry cards or you may\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/college-fairs\/college-fair-evaluation-form\/\">fill it out on-line<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>TALKING POINTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Speak\u00a0about Bates. Do not compare colleges (certainly, no negative remarks about other schools). Be especially careful to avoid comparing Bates and our &#8220;competition&#8221; (Bowdoin, Middlebury, Colby, Williams, Dartmouth, Amherst, Tufts, etc.). We are different from other colleges, not better. Talk about the defining qualities of Bates.<\/li>\n<li>Use anecdotes. If you have a chance to chat with interested students in a relatively calm environment, talk about your experiences or those of your Bates friends. Stress opportunities and exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Feel free to ask your adjoining representative any questions you may have. If the fair is very slow, browse if you like \u2014 it is good training to see what others do and say.<\/li>\n<li>There is a short list of facts inside the viewbook cover.\u00a0 We also encourage you to\u00a0explore the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/\">Admission pages<\/a> of the Bates web site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOGISTICS Arrive at least 30 minutes early to give yourself time to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":true,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}