Jenna is at the end of her senior year of high school, which means she is in the process of deciding which college or university to go to. She was accepted to BYU- Idaho, BYU-Provo, University of Utah, and University of San Francisco. She has no desire to go to Idaho, so that one is out, so she toured the other three schools. After touring USF she realized it wouldn't be worth the money, so now we're down to UofU, and BYU-Provo. The UofU had a day for those accepted to come check out the campus. Now Jenna is a Honor Student (I think her GPA is 3.9), a Sterling Scholar in Language, and very self-motivated. She made sure there was a Study Abroad Program and liked the Scholars Program they offered. She was especially excited about the eye-candy she saw there. She couldn't quit looking at the kid with the long curly hair, 2 earrings, and a buff body.
So the UofU did it right. And this is where BYU-Provo failed me. They didn't have any eye-candy out and about on the day she took a tour. We scheduled a tour at 4:00. It was just the tour guide and Jenna, Jeff and me. We jumped into a golf cart and started the impressive tour. We drove along all the sidewalks throughout the campus and stopped at certain buildings to hear what goes on in there. The problem was that at that time of day, most of the students are back in their dorms, and very few were walking around. At the end of the tour and hearing about this amazing school and all it offers, Jenna complained that she didn't see one good-looking guy. That is what mattered to her! Of course, that matters to a lot of kids her age.
My solution is simple and so easy to implement. I'm too late to get this going for my daughter's sake, but maybe BYU will use my idea for the next round of possible future students. All BYU needs to do is hire the top 50 best looking guys and top 50 best looking girls. University students are always poor, so they don't need to be payed much. When a tour is booked, they need to find out if it's a girl or boy doing the tour. If it's a girl, then tell 10 of the 50 guys that they need to go to their designated spot on campus where the golf cart will pass. When the prospective student (let's pretend it's Jenna) passes by she'll see one hot guy leaning up against a tree reading a book who just happens to glance up as she passes and flashes her his winning smile, the next guy will be sitting on the grass with a girls head in his lap while he strokes her hair (suggesting that this could be you next year), #3 guy will be walking down the sidewalk and has to get out of the way of the golf cart, and happens to catch Jenna's eye and says, "Please tell me you are coming here in the Fall!", #4 hot guy just happens to be near the library door when Jenna gets off the cart to tour the library and opens the door for her while placing his hand on her back to escort her through, #5 and #6 babelicious dudes are throwing a football to each other as the cart passes the grassy area at the center of campus, #7 hunk of burning love is walking to class and listening to his head phones, and Jenna hears him quietly singing to Bruno Mars I Should Have Brought You Flowers, #8, #9, and #10 guys are talking and laughing on the stairs of the Wilkensen Center until one of them spys Jenna in the cart driving towards them and taps his friends on their muscular shoulders and points out the hot new student as they each try frantically to get Jenna's attention before she passes by.
What do you think? It would work; I swear it would. That is 10 bucks to each guy for their hour of work; 100 bucks for BYU to hand out in hopes of getting a student that will pay thousands and thousands for the next four years.
Oh, to what could have been.
1 comment:
Go Utes! Mich, the problem is Jenna is attracted to the bad boys, even if byu has bad boys they can't show it by long hair and tatoos on buff arms in a tank top. You had no chance
Post a Comment