How do parents get their children into grad school?

mominsearch
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:46:43 +0000

After looking at the thread below about college professors I am highly interested in the problem that sakky & some of the other posters were talking about. Please let’s not start talking about parents personally that is not what I want to do. I just think it is very interesting to understand why people think that a parent can do this & mindboggling to boot.

How do parents do this? I can see a parent filling out the application & I suppose they could fill out the SOP, but they couldn’t take their kids GRE, do the LOR, take the kid’s tests in school, write the students papers or get them their grades (I would hope) nor do their interviews. Is it a financial thing? I know of people who claim that they give money to colleges or whatever but this can’t be too often I would imagine?

My son does have friends at school who’s parents have refused to help their kids out because they are not going into law or medicine which I find astounding. I also find it mindboggling that someone would go to grad school to get out of “real life” for awhile. At least my son’s don’t think this is the reason they want to go to grad school nor do they think being a professor is prestigious. Believe me they work far harder in college than my husband & I do in our jobs. Grad school does NOT look like it easy so I can’t believe people would use it to get out of real life but clearly you must think this is done.

Are there too many students who are not intelligent enough getting into grad school as suggested too or are there just too many programs? Very interesting.