It’s true. A college fair is very similar to Halloween. For those that do not believe my assumption let me break it down for you all. Halloween is a time where children go house to house in their neighborhood in order to get bite size pieces of candy. A college fair is a place where young adults go booth to booth or table to table at a high school or convention center to get information about universities and college.
Of course there are booths that actually contain treats like candy or various promotional items that make you want to check out their booths. That’s the treat. The trick is when you start asking a representative some questions about the school and start to have a good conversation until you ask if they have a certain major….and they don’t. That’s the trick.
There are also comparisons to the trick or treaters and the students. You have your grab and go trick or treaters who just go for the gold and take the candy without saying the magic words “Trick or treat.” At college fairs, since there are usually so many schools in attendance, people just grab any and all information on your table before you even get to say “Hello.”
On Halloween, children wear costumes like super heroes, princesses, firefighters or police officers. At a college fair, the students also have costumes but they are a different variety. These costumes are their majors like biology, forensic science, music industry and business.
So you see, college fairs are really like mini-Halloweens.
