<p>What are your opinions on parents during college interviews, should they not come with you? Make them wait in the car? </p>
<p>No, I don’t think parents are supposed to be at the interview with you. You’re all on your own and if you can’t do that, then there’s going to be a problem.</p>
<p>They can go on the tour with you if you’re doing that, but the interview is a 1 on 1 thing. Parent should not be involved in it at all.</p>
<p>Alright thanks, there gonna help me bring all of my paintings up to the lobby and then walk around campus for an hour </p>
<p>Oh, in case there was any confusion, I meant come with you as in like, drive you to the building/wait for you to finish in the lobby </p>
<p>It’s fine that they accompany you or drive you to the session. Nothing wrong with that. Sitting in the session is a definite No No. </p>
<p>But if I may ask, why are you bringing paintings? Even portfolio reviews would normally view slides – why are you needing to transport actual paintings? I think you should get very clear directions before doing so.</p>
<p>@T26E4 Cornell Arch prefers originals! I would go in alone to give them the idea that I drove here by myself(its a 5 hour drive so nah), but having to carry the big/heavy paintings up to the second floor is stopping me from doing that- plus I would also have to walk 10 minutes from the parking lot if i wasnt dropped off. </p>
<p>In that situation it is really fine to have your parents drive you and help schlep the paintings. But they should depart once you are settled in the waiting area with your stuff, and you can call/text them when you are done. I am not sure I would take a LOT of originals, though. Maybe a couple, with slides of the rest?</p>
<p>@intparent thankyou for the advice! I think thats how I’ll go about it. And yea i think ur right i should start cutting down on the amount of originals i bring lol</p>
<p>There is typically a waiting room in the admissions area for parents to wait. I brought a book. At the end of the interview, the interviewer invited me in to see if I had any questions about the school.</p>
<p>@happy1 alright thanks! Im just getting a little anxious as the interview gets closer and closer and worrying about all the little details lol </p>
<p>I knew students whose parents came with them to their grad school interviews (parents did their own thing during the interview, and we only knew about it because they talked about doing things with their parents afterwards), and they still got in. I would imagine it would be fairly common in undergrad interviews. Don’t worry about it. You’re not going to lose points because your parents came with you (provided they aren’t overbearing, and they don’t sound like they are).</p>
<p>My parents were 50 miles away for my college interview as I went straight from school and therefore did not need a ride. They never even saw my college until the orientation for my study abroad program six months after I registered and sent in the checks. (Actually, my dad may have picked a girl up from there for a date once. I’m not sure.)
On the whole, I’m glad that my parents weren’t there. The interview happened to be part of a larger, student-only program, so there would have been no place for them there anyway, but even for other interviews, I feel like having my parents around waiting made me feel more reliant and less mature, in a way, less like I was an adult dealing with things for myself, and I feel like that may have changed the way I felt at the interviews, such as in my confidence levels.
I don’t think that the admissions people will care about your parents sitting out and helping you shlep- just consider the above and, I guess, pretend they are completely not there during the interview itself :). </p>
<p>You’re over estimating the negative image you might be portraying if your parents drive you to campus. Geez, it’s not as if you’re automatically supposed to be completely independent of them. And lots of HS students don’t have drivers licenses. You’re not somehow deficient.</p>
<p>You’re 100% fine. GL w/your interview</p>
<p>all you</p>
<p>Wow thankyou all! </p>