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[quote=Anonymous]Faculty here. Yes, again. Parents accompany prospective students on campus visits and speak for them when they interact with faculty, parents call and email me about their student's performance in my classes and in my program generally. It's all more out of worry--parenting from fear--but as a PP indicates, this kind of contact also gets in the way of students learning how to make their way through the kinds of adult structures they will see throughout their lives. To the PP who thinks that colleges are "businesses" that withhold from their customers: as far as I know, there's not a college out there that treats an offer of admission as an absolute guarantee that students will get into every single course or program that they want. Departments have budgets, and limitations on the numbers of seats they can offer in their courses. We all work really hard to match supply to demand, but there are constraints--just as in any business.[/quote]
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