Do parents attend Admitted Student weekends for grad school?

soozievt
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:52 +0000

MomofTwins…my daughter was an applicant to Architecture grad schools last year. She did some visits before being admitted, all on her own. After being admitted, she needed to see some schools she had yet to see. She flew or drove to them on her own. By the way, none of these were funded by the grad schools, but were at our expense. Anyway, one of her visits was going to be during spring break when she was here at home. It was not for the accepted student event but rather a privately arranged visit for the day to Cornell. For this ONE trip, I went with her as it is a six hour drive (though would have allowed her to go on her own). However, I did not accompany her with any parts of the visit and just met up with her on campus when she was done and I just looked around on my own and hung out in a cafe and so forth. Like your kid, my kid did it all on her own and owned the process. She does value our input and she enjoyed making that one trip with me only as it was just something that worked out that way given the drive and she was coming from our home. But otherwise, she made all visits on her own. And she spoke to everyone on campus on her own and all that jazz. She still consults us about input on things but it is not like she depends on us but she does value sharing with us and getting input. My advice is if you do accompany your kid on the trips, to not attend the events meant just for students.