Orientation - Parents Still in 'competitive' mode

pyewacket
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:09:48 +0000

I agree that orientation should be about THIS college not the also rans. But I can understand how parents could be bonding like battle-scarred veterans of the admissions wars.There certainly is a type of parents whose conversation points are always “how smart my kid is”–well, you’re not going to have to live with those parents or even ever see them again until graduation–when you can ask “Where did your son apply to med school, law school, grad school, etc.?”