How do parents get their children into grad school?

InSF
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:22:24 +0000

Your story was nice but I’m sure the Curie’s daughter earned her way into school - she didn’t have her mom write her SOP. I mean - I’ve read of cases here where people couldn’t get their recommender to reply to their e-mails so they had their MOM call on their behalf - and this is when they’re adults? Doesn’t this strike anyone as strange? At what point do parents dodder off and take care of their own lives?

I got into grad school on my own. I didn’t need mommy to call anyone for me or daddy to write my SOP or either of them to pay for school. I’m an adult and I’d hope everyone else in grad school is too - it’s part off the reason most grad schools in IR have a hard time accepting students straight out of undergrad - because a lot of them are babies without real-world experience who think their parents can help them “get in.” And worse - their parents think they can too.