My Experience Looking at Colleges

One of the main things I have learned from going through the process of touring colleges and talking to professors is how important it really is to get the customer’s (in this case, my) opinion on things before trying to sell anything. The most interesting part is how I really only realized how important this was after taking the first couple of weeks of my sales in the startup class. Throughout the process of choosing a college and speaking to the spokespeople of each college I was interested in, the commonality of all of the colleges I was truly showing interest in is how much they heard me out before anything. After touring a couple of colleges near home and other colleges I was interested in, I came up with a short list of colleges based on what I thought at the time was primarily because of the campus and facilities. Looking back, this whole time the colleges I remember the most were the ones that I had the best interviews with and that I was able to form a connection with my interviewer in. The interviews I remember the most are the ones where I was able to speak my mind to my interviewer about matters like what I wanted to major in, what my hobbies are, and what I am looking for in an institution. What I had thought was a simple good conversation was really a well-planned out sales pitch with a great salesperson, it just took me taking my most recent entrepreneurship class to realize that.