Do parents attend Admitted Student weekends for grad school?

jyber209
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:55:28 +0000

It never occurred to me to participate in any of my D’s grad school visits. However, when she is at the point of looking for housing, I could imagine accompanying her to check out some places. (We live within a couple of hours of where she will be attending grad school.) However, even with that, I would not be inclined to go along if she were looking into a situation that involved other roommates. I figure it is better to err in the direction of hanging back, as opposed to the risk of being too involved.

Her boyfriend suggested to her that he might want to go along on her housing search outings, but I warned her about that too – any prospective roommates might be concerned that he could potentially be a too frequent guest, I feared.

H and I do hope to visit her in her new location on occasion, however – to take her out for a nice meal as a break from the ramen noodles. ;)