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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, the bottom line is that colleges have had to adjust over the years for helicopter parents and have had to come up with ways to remove them from their children as early and as much as they can from the move in process without alienating and enraging them.  That's what the parent "panels" are all about.  You can be assured that the schools are rolling their collective eyes at all of it.

It's not just an American problem, btw.  I once helped one of my kids find an apartment in the UK for grad school, and in the process found myself on campus about to enter a building where a "no parents allowed" orientation was going on.  The kid at the door gently refused my entrance.  After I assured him that it was an innocent mistake and I was not hovering we had a good laugh about the helicopter parent problem.  [/quote]

I'd be a hell of a lot more sympathetic to schools if they didn't charge $90K per year.  It makes the stakes feel so much higher.[/quote]

the stakes are high. I told my kids - in my day, taking an extra semester or year wasn't such a big deal. but you can't do that. sorry. go to every info session and meet every advisor until you're 1000% sure you have a schedule that gets you done in 4 years, with a little wiggle room in case you need to drop something, get sick, etc[/quote]

all true but none of this changes the fact that parent programs are to deal with the helicopters and are completely unnecessary and a waste of the school's money . . . i never heard of a kid who didn't graduate on time because their parent didn't stay long enough on move in weekend[/quote]

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