<p>My D will be graduating from college this May…Yeah!!! She is living away from home with a friend and will continue to live out of state after graduating. She is independent, has her own car insurance, works part time (we still help her out as she is still a full time student) etc. So she is pretty much on her own. My question is regarding grad. announcements. Should she send them out herself from her out of state address? Should I send them out from our home (her permanent address)? I am concerned that with something like this that she deems unnecessary and a bother with the end of her senior year stress it won’t get done. So how much do you parents help out with all the grad duties or do you leave it 100% to your graduate? I want to help if it’s needed but don’t want to overstep if it’s not something parents normally assist with. This is my first college graduate so I am unsure as to how much I should be doing. Thank you!</p>
<p>And the problem if it doesn’t get done is . . . ? Won’t the important people in her life know that she’s graduating? What is the purpose of the announcement?</p>
<p>We are not leaving it up to our graduate. In fact, our student’s school has sent both e-mail and paper information regarding graduation including specifics for graduation announcements to us, the parents. Yes, we will do the ordering, etc. as our student is very involved with Senior projects. And yes, ^ the important people know about the graduation, but these important people(grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc.) are also looking for a formal announcement, if you can believe that! Most will not be attending graduation, so the announcement is the only formality they will see. It will be mailed from our home address, as student is in a dorm over 11 hours away, and will be relocating to another city out of state for employment.</p>
<p>Hope that helps Inquiringmind2!</p>
<p>I’m glad to see this since I’m really interested in whether or not grad announcements make sense. Something about them make me uncomfortable, like we’re asking for a gift. Honestly, our good friends and family DO know about the graduation. Does everyone do these?</p>
<p>^^It is more of a formality–the grandparent generation is looking for it. I doubt we will send them to close friends, however. I guess it is more of a family thing…esp since they will not be attending the graduation.</p>
<p>Our son is graduating in May. We’re not buying announcements nor are we planning on sending out announcements. Why is it important to send out announcements?
We will know he graduated, his family will know he graduated, and his friends will know that he graduated. Also, our local paper will print an announcement once they are given the information.</p>
<p>We didn’t do grad announcements and I have not received a grad announcement from any other college grad in our small family circle.</p>
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Agree with this! IMO it does come across as a “please send a gift” request. We’ve never received a graduation announcement. Is this something that varies by what part of the country you live in?</p>
<p>My mother told me that you send out graduation announcements for high school but not for college. My son will be the first in the family to graduate from a 4 year college and I would love to let the relatives know. I live in Michigan and maybe this is just in certain parts of the country.</p>
<p>I have never received a college graduation announcement. Here in the midwest, at least with my family and circle of friends, a high school graduation calls for an announcement to be sent, but not college. High school graduation seems to be celebrated with others more than a college graduation. We make an effort to attend out-of-town family hs grad ceremonies, but not so often for college. There is no expectation of a gift for college grad (except from the grad’s parents and/or grandparents). So - college announcement seems to be word of mouth - or the annual holiday letter!</p>
<p>My daughter’s college gave each family ten free announcements, so we sent a few to grandparents and close relatives. Son’s school charges quite a bit for the smallest pkg of 25, so we’ll pass. I’ll send a little note with a graduation picture to the few relatives who would want to have a memento of the occasion.</p>
<p>^^This is exactly what I’m talking about: not “asking” for a gift by sending it to relatives, but grandparents (especially) and aunts and uncles that cannot attend are looking for something!</p>
<p>We have never received college graduation notices from any family or friends. I didn’t even realize it was done. Perhaps this “no college announcements” is a midwest thing as it appears uncommon amoung those of us in the midwest reporting in.</p>
<p>I agree that sending announcements to some people seems like you’re requesting a gift. In our family though, Grandma would love to have that as a keepsake. 
My advice would be to send it to the people that you know it will mean something to.</p>
<p>S1 graduated last May. I didn’t even consider sending announcements.<br>
We sent them out for both S’s h.s. graduation and they received ($) gifts…wouldn’t want anyone to feel as if they had to do it again.
Everyone in the family that we would send an announcement to already knew he was graduating. </p>
<p>My neice (or my SIL) sent out grad. announcements when she graduated from college and again two years later when she got her Masters. I thought it a little much.
I sent her a congratulations card with a nice note inside but didn’t send a gift.</p>
<p>We took care of buying and sending out grad announcements. Had our grad help us make up a list of people to send them to. </p>
<p>One thing that we did ask of our grad was that she write personal notes to her high school GC, the two teachers who wrote LORs for her college applications, her favorite middle school teacher and her favorite elementary school teacher to enclose in their grad announcements. These people never get thanked enough, in my book.</p>
<p>I am asking about college graduation, not high school. I have received college graduation announcements in the past. Not many, but I have received them so I just thought it was normal. My niece graduated from college last year and sent them out. My feeling is to sent them out to family and very close family friends as I know some of them would like to have them as keepsakes. The question is should I help out with the sending or should I leave it all up to Her? I guess each family does what works best for them. Thank you all for your comments.</p>
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<p>If that comment was directed to what I wrote, let me clarify that I was speaking about college graduation announcements.</p>
<p>Maybe it is a family thing, but our family (both H’s and my sides) send out college graduation announcements.</p>
<p>We have also received several college grad announcements–see my earlier posts about my thoughts.</p>
<p>We’ve never sent nor received any graduation announcements. HS or college or grad school.Unless you have family or friends who said they are interested in attending, I don’t see the point. To me, it’s an excuse to ask for gifts.</p>