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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new. My suitemate’s parents at my Ivy League school did this back in the late 90s. They flew out monthly or more to take their kid shopping, take her out to nice meals, type her term papers, edit her term papers, write up her sources, and quiz her for exams. Sometimes they would take her friends drinking and even come to parties. She treated it like the most normal thing ever but my other suite mates and I were appalled. We had never seen anything like it and assumed she would flail after graduation. So naive of us!

She got into Yale Law School and has had a great life ever since. I had other kids on my floor who had parents stay nearby to handle laundry, food shopping, package pickup, etc. They were all super successful and confident, maybe because they knew they had a safety net and could focus on school and extracurriculars without worrying about time management or chores.

Agree with the PP who said this is a rich people problem- these were very rich people. [/quote]

This. A friend's kid just transferred out of Boston College. She said her kid (among other reasons for leaving) was the "poor kid" but they are not poor. Parents were coming every weekend, taking kids out for expensive dinners and buying designer bags and clothes for their kids. Buying anything they needed. [/quote]

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