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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I get your point, but I don’t know of any other business that charges and can’t promise to deliver. I’d argue that any business that can’t needs to seriously consider making the changes required in order to do so. Respectfully, ‘we really try’ isn’t good enough, least of all when that kid can’t graduate in fours years as a result. At a minimum the school should not charge that kid another cent for its own inability to efficiently provide its product. [/quote]

Did you go to college?  That is not how it works.  [/quote]

Sorry your reading comprehension is poor. I know how it works, which is to say badly (at some schools - many do not operate this way). My point is that it shouldn’t. You caught up yet?[/quote]

Can’t reason with people like you, hyper reactive and lacking in logic. Fortunately my college would tell such a parent her child is welcome to transfer if she is unhappy with the “services” provided. And would think hope she enjoys having that child living her basement forever if unable to function in a real-world environment as reasonable and supportive as college.[/quote]

Unreasonable, disproportionate and demanding reactions are not in the parents' favor. This isn't high school.[/quote]

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