17yr Old Doing College Visits Alone?

Lakemom
Sun, 27 May 2012 08:09:24 +0000

Aerlan, sounds like you have a good understanding of yourself and your parents ability to help you with these decisions. Everyone’s situation is different and given that your parents are immigrants, then you are the one in your family with the most skill at processing what you learn.

Most of us respond viewing our own parent-child relationships, which are different.

I agree with others, coming up with better overnite accommodations that are safer is your next task. Call the schools and ask what they suggest for a student traveling alone.
Maybe you can do student overnites on the campus for some of the time.

my$0.02, I just went with my son for his physical with a new doctor and have been present at every other exam with the old doctor. They readily showed me into the room, the doctor never asked me to leave in fact some of the questions my son didn’t really remember which I of course did. My friend has a daughter that is being treated for a chronic disease and she goes to every appt. so it depends on what the student is being treated for.

The only things a student is going to be concerned saying in front of their parents are questions about sex or drugs. A smart doctor would just ask the parent to step out when they do that part of their exam and ask the student then.