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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is a Freshmen in college. I have never had Facebook. I don't follow any of that. I do see the general university webpage on Insta--and announcements there.

I never checked my kids' Canvas school sites since the first year in MS.  They were independent.  HS----they showed up and came home and all was good. They are completely independent.

I was turned off on the tour for our state school which was filled with NoVA parents and the truly idiotic over-bearing questions.  Kid is at a school that draws from all over, including Internationally, and the times we have had move-in, parent orientation, school tour and gone to visit the parents seem very chill and hands-off.  fwiw, it's ivy so don't know if it is the independence these kids have to make it there.[/quote]

[b]Fwiw big state universities tend to give less info and it can be confusing. They simply enroll too many to spoonfeed you everything along the way so being on top of details is crucial.[/b] Ivies you pay 80k+ for the privilege of having things made easier. And still, plenty of intense parents there who worked hard every step of the way so their kids could get in. [/quote]

+1 DS is at VT and I have occasionally forwarded him info I see on the parent page just as an FYI. Most of the time, he's on top of it but sometimes it's useful information. [/quote]

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