A question about move-in weekend in August

frazzled1
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:18:51 +0000

We did Parents Weekend the first two years our d was at Vandy. If I could do it over again, I’d try to arrive the previous day (Thursday), so as to be able to take advantage of all the Friday programming, particularly the lectures.

With all three of our kids (at two different schools), we found what they wanted most on Parents Weekend was to go shopping - Target, the grocery store, and the outlets. We also took our d’s friends whose parents weren’t there to lunch or dinner. So we weren’t on campus as much as we’d expected.

If you do any of the special campus tours, and it’s possible to sign up ahead of time, I suggest doing it - you can always not show up if you find you’re still in line at Pancake Pantry . I also suggest sticking close to the tour leader in order to be able to hear - we dropped out of tours both years because there were so many people in the group.