<p>I know this is a shot in the dark but here goes:</p>
<p>Each graduate is given 7 tickets for the unified ceremony in the morning; one of the tickets is to be used by the senior. I am short one ticket for the ceremony as I have family member coming with plane tickets and hotel rooms; all made before we were informed there would be a ticket limit!!</p>
<p>I now get to decided which family member can not attend. I am voting on my 86 year old father in law as I don’t think he will be up to both ceremonies and dinner that night, but he really wants to hear the Presidents Bush amd Clinton speak. I am thinking he will not go to the diploma ceremony in the afternoon. My mother has offered to miss the unified ceremony as she wants to see my son receive his diploma in the afternoon. I know she is just offering to help me out, but I know she would be very upset if she wasn’t there for everything! The person that should sit out if a ticket isn’t had, is my bother in law, but he will pitch a fit that he came all that way and didn’t get to attend. I’m about at the point that I will volunteer not to attend just to avoid the headache!!</p>
<p>If anyone knows anyone with an extra ticket, I would love to hear from you. I was willing to pay for a ticket, but Tulane has noted on the website that tickets can not be sold. </p>
<p>CC, come to my rescue please!!! I am cross posting this on the Tulane board as I am desperate.</p>
<p>Have your child tell every senior he knows at Tulane that he needs 1 ticket, I’m sure everyone won’t be having 6 guests. I would especially ask the international students as travel may limit family attendence. The office that distributes the tickets may also keep a list of those requesting extras and redistibute tickets that are not needed by other graduates. They don’t always advertise this, but it can be worth a call. Good luck and congratulations.</p>
<p>At NYU each senior gets 2 tickets for graduation. At one point they said graduation was going to be at Shea Stadium and we’d have 8 tickets, so my parents, stepmother, grandparents (2), stepsister and her boyfriend all booked hotel rooms and some of them booked plane tickets (the rest are driving). Then NYU said there was another change of venue, and so it went back to 2 tickets. Imagine how much fun I’ve been having trying to get 5 extra tickets, when nearly 100% of the student body is short on tickets.</p>
<p>Same here for Tulane’s graduation emengee. There is an online list of students that are in need of tickets and another list with those students that have tickets to spare. There is not one person on the “have tickets” and about 200 that “need tickets.”</p>
<p>Many of my son’s friends are also in need of tickets. He has told me that he won’t be able to get an extra ticket; of course I don’t know how hard he is really trying!. As far as international students, I noticed that many of them also are looking for tickets! This unified ceremony is not just for the undergrads; it includes all schools at Tulane-Medical, Business, Social Work, Law, Engineering, etc…</p>
<p>NYU’s situation is much worse. Since every student only receives 2 tickets, there are almost never tickets that don’t go straight to parents. Stepparents, siblings, grandparents, and others are completely out of luck. I would be extremely grateful to have a graduation like Tulane’s as at least each student has 6 tickets, so generally the immediate family can go. I’d give an arm and a leg to be guaranteed 6 tickets. Imagine if you were told you’d get 8, you had 7 people book flights and hotels, and then you were only given 2 tickets.</p>
<p>As far as who shouldn’t get to go, I vote for your father in law. If he wants to be there to see a few ex-Presidents speak and not to see his own grandson graduate. Graduation should focus on the students, and it’s unfair that a family member might not get to see your son graduate because somebody wanted to see an ex-President.</p>
<p>emengee, am an NYU parent, and I have to agree with you that 7 tickets sounds like a windfall! Although I sympathize with someone having to be left out at Tulane, I truly have never heard of extended family, as in aunts and uncles, attending a college graduation. Truth be told, these ceremonies are pretty boring! ;)</p>
<p>We have a very close family with both sets of the kids grandparents alive. An immediate family function can include 30+ people as almost our entire family on both sides lives in the same city! My brother in law is single and is bringing my father in law as my mother in law is not able to attend. </p>
<p>The Tulane graduations has always been at the Superdome, but due to the hurricane had to be move to another location that isn’t as large. While the morning ceremony with the Presidents is a big event, there is a second ceremony in the afternoon where each school awards the diplomas. That is the main attraction for the family, but it would still be cool for everyone to be able to attend in the morning.</p>
<p>pokey, I congratulate you on being in a family that is so supportive of one another. I think is great and I sincerely hope you find another ticket!</p>
<p>personally If I was your brother in law- I would skip out for the ceremony and hit whats left of NO ;)</p>
<p>but I hope everything works out
We just have 3 grandparents and I will be surprised if they all come- even though it is just from Seattle to Portland. Not a limit on tix anyway- except for the indoor events.</p>
<p>I would recommend that if your kids have friends who are grad students that they speak with them. I know from my own experience at NYU, the grad students tend to go the the ceremonies held by their individual schools (because call your name and you walk across the stage and there tend to be less people) and don’t attend to the big ceremony at the park since it is the last ceremony held and there are days between the ceremonies. By this time many grad students don’t want to sit through a second ceremony. They can and should sign up to get extra tickets (usually up to 2) because do come through. I requested and got 2 extra tickets for Steinhardt’s ceremony and they gave me 2 additional tickets for the park. </p>
<p>I remember standing on line picking up graduation tickets and literally just giving an undergrad who was standing in line talking about needing extra tickets for the ceremony in the park, my park tickets. </p>
<p>Thanks for everyone’s advice. Pokey, I do sincerely hope you can find an extra ticket - I just wanted to point out that a lot of other schools have it much worse. As far as NYU goes, I think I have found enough tickets for my family (through a lot of extensive networking and resourcing - it wasn’t easy, and I doubt anyone was successful in getting any more tickets than I did).</p>
<p>As far as graduate students at NYU, most of them don’t even order tickets for the All University Commencement in the park. So you have to catch a graduate student who’s graduating that year <em>before</em> ticket ordering is over and try and get them to order tickets. It’s hard, but it can certainly be done.</p>
<p>i think if you look around you can find the tickets… best of luck to you… i know i had a friend who went to nyu and she had noone go to graduation… so there are kids somewhere with extra tickets…</p>
<p>The ceremony will be show on the internet; of course the older family members are not computer literate ;-(</p>
<p>I have thought about an ad in the want ads of the local or school paper, but the school has provided a place on the website to post tickets needed. I will just sit and hope that my son will try a bit harder to find a ticket. He isn’t one to try too hard for something that isn’t important for himself!</p>
<p>Hey pokey, tell you son that HE will be the one to turn a family member away from his graduation ceremoney. That would be incentive to find a ticket! :)</p>