How do parents get their children into grad school?

InSF
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:04:50 +0000

Don’t parents have their own lives? Any parent that “gets” their kid into grad school is a bad parent and any program that can’t see through parental interference is a bad program. What ever happened to “standing on your own two feet?” What’s next - parents writing their kid’s thesis or maybe teaching classes for them?