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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we did two nights. arrived at 10pm.  move in that next morning. there were school-related activities (parents had a separate schedule from kids .. this may be bs at your school, was not at ours). I had a meeting the next morning with the development office (wasn't instigated by me, you can be sure). Left that day around 2pm.

Both Harvard and Yale have parents programming people stay for fwiw.[/quote]

Northwestern has parent programming, that culminates with a March through the Arch with the pep band and speakers.  It is the morning after move in.[/quote]

My kid goes to NU and we did not stay for any of that.  They had a lunch for parents which was nice and we went to that — just the dining hall but they step it up for parents.  Staying for March thru arch would have meant an additional day off work plus being away from our other kids.  My kid did not care at all and made it clear she would not see us and that we probably wouldn’t see her given the enormous mass of people gojng thru the arch.  I checked out the livestream and can confirm it would be very difficult to locate your kid.  
iMHO, schools plan a lot of stuff so that parents who are feeling kind of needy aren’t clinging to their kids — it’s fine to go if that makes the experience better for you but you don’t need to go and your kid probably doesn’t need you to go.[/quote]

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