Do parents attend Admitted Student weekends for grad school?

nngmm
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:22:32 +0000

You absolutely can’t go to grad school’s admit weekends!

The schools are paying for it (usually, at least). The students are housed with current grad students, or with other prospectives at the hotel. Having a parent there will be extremely awkward.

The students have a very busy schedule with meetings, classes, parties, etc that have no place for any “parental involvement”.

If, just in case, your daughter is a waitlisted student that was invited to attend admitted students weekend, she should realize that she is being evaluated (even if she’s told otherwise…). Having a parent around in that situation would be especially bad idea.