Parents at Previews??!!

VAMom2015
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:01:12 +0000

I don’t think there’s really much reason to “hang” with the parents at Princeton Preview unless the student wants to. I went with my son last week. As soon as he checked in he took off to attend a class. I met up with another parent and we spent the weekend together going to parent events, and were joined by other parents on and off. That was nice for me!

My son was on his own the first day until meeting his host in the late afternoon. I know some students met other students at check-in and went to classes together. Then he was off with the host and the other student staying in the same room. Host did a great job giving a tour of P’ton and answering his questions.

I never saw my son after dropping him off on day 1. I saw him for a library tour on day 2 because we happened to be in the same place (yes, I did text him with what I was doing, but did not tell him he had to meet with me). Then I didn’t see him again until the breakfast on Sat.

Students are given a card that allows them to eat in any dining hall in any of the colleges. I suggest you try out several different ones. My son says he liked Whitman the best. I wish the parents had been offered the chance to eat in a dining hall at least once. Maybe we could have just walked in and paid, but since they didn’t tell us that was an option I didn’t do that.

The parents are invited to tour some of the eating clubs. I enjoyed it. The ones I saw are all very different. Most are very nice. I got to sit down with one of the officers at one of the sign-in clubs and she told us a lot about the eating clubs and answered questions. I liked getting to know more about the clubs and how they work so if my son decides to join one I have an idea of what they are like.

Go and explore, take classes and most of all ask lots of questions.