<p>For those of you with college sophomores or older, do parents help move their kids to college sophomore year or do the kids get sent off alone with their cars full because its not so important any more?</p>
<p>If the student has a car, the parent’s involvement is often unnecessary. </p>
<p>But many upperclassmen do not have cars, so unless they travel by plane or train and have their possessions shipped, someone has to drive to the campus with them and drive the car back. That someone is usually a parent. And since the parent is on hand anyway, he or she usually helps with the loading/unloading.</p>
<p>My DS goes to school over 1500 miles away, no car. I’m flying with him only to be a luggage carrier. Will just wait until he empties everything and then grab the suitcases and leave - nothing like this year when we spent time setting up his room, making his bed, etc. He is ready to do all on his own and so are we.</p>
<p>Not us. One move in day was enough.</p>
<p>It is a 24 hour drive to D’s school. We drove out her first year to move her in. Since then she has traveled by plane. She handles storing items in the summer and during study abroad.</p>
<p>Not us either. D stored stuff on campus during the summer and moved herself back in in the fall. We’ll help her move out upon graduation. That’s it…</p>
<p>We don’t buy our kids cars. And our daughters have never really wanted to own a car. They drive, but are entirely indifferent to the matter of automobile ownership.</p>
<p>So the answer is yes. We help them move in. Because we’re strong and in reasonably good shape and because their friends usually don’t get to campus until a day or two after our kids.</p>
<p>I am dumping dd at the front door next year. She is on the third floor again and I am not lugging her stuff up anymore. Maybe a few small/light items. I am not carrying the fridge up 4 flights of steps again. It is hot and with no air condition dusty old building which it makes it very difficult to breath. She can arrange her room herself.</p>
<p>My daughter had a car sophomore year, so we didn’t need to help her. My son however will be a freshman next year and probably won’t ever have a car at school. So I imagine we will help him sophomore year too. After that I am hoping he finds rides 
He will be a 4 hour car ride away.</p>
<p>Sophomore year DH was…hmmm…coincidentally …out of town when D needed to move back in. She is a 3 hr. car ride away. She could have taken a car and managed on her own. But, we did it together… had a great time, she didn’t feel intruded upon, and I happen to love her college town. I had a lovely stay at a great local hotel, she cooked me dinner before my drive home. I guess it all depends on not only the student’s needs, but also the emotional and logistical dynamics.</p>
<p>My younger son and I brought his older brother back for his second year, because the timing worked out (I teach). This year, however, I started at a new school and my younger son had cross country practice, so we did not make the trip, which is 13 hours from our home. My oldest son managed just fine. He had his two roommates help him bring his stuff from a storage facility to their new apartment. I do not plan to make the move in for his senior year, but will return to campus during my spring break to help clean out his place.</p>
<p>We haved moved D1 in every year, and into her first grown up apartment after graduation. If we could (distance/time permits), we probably would help our kids move into every new place. Do you hear the helicopter blades whirling?</p>
<p>Both of my kids moved themselves in after first year. They fly to there college than have to go to the storage place and move in. They also pack up their stuff and move it to storage center at the end of the year. Neither have cars. I know its not easy but they have handle it just fine. I can not afford to fly two times a year to pack their stuff up.</p>
<p>My son goes to school across the country so he did sophomore move in by himself. Luckily the college has free storage on campus for the summer so it was pretty easy for him. If he was within driving distance I’m sure we would have helped him.</p>
<p>My parents always came… usually in multiple cars, as ours are all small and not big enough for everything. They’d drive, unload the car into my room, then take me grocery shopping and then out to dinner. Then gone, and I unpacked by myself.</p>
<p>The difference here is that I went to school 20 minutes away and didn’t have a car. There was no convenient way to do it without my parents, and it wasn’t a huge inconvenience for them to help, either.</p>
<p>We’ve done it all 3 years, and I’m sure we’ll do it for the final year. Maybe because he’s our only and maybe because it’s driveable (8 hours away), but in any case, it’s a fun little family adventure. DH likes to help set things up and I want to see in my mind’s eye where he will be for the school year. DS seems agreeable enough about the whole thing as well.</p>
<p>We moved older son in every year (7 hour drive required an overnight). Expect to do the same for younger son, who thankfully is half the distance and close to relatives we can stay with, except next year he’s off to Jordan, and we’re not driving there! Neither kid drives and both have been in cities with good transportation, something they liked about their college locations.</p>
<p>Our DS will be in on campus housing again this year. We live across country and use move in as an excuse to vacation. We’ll help.move him in and extend time to visit the area.</p>
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<p>Our in-state kid, yes. We drove 4 hours even for sophomore move-out. (at least DH did. He learned to listen to the kid directing traffic around the dorm balcony where recliners and other large items were being dumped over the railings…)</p>
<p>Far-away kid had to handle storage on her own. Dorm store-room for boxes after freshman year and storing stuff with friends after that. We couldn’t afford to fly there and help her manage, and that was one of the discussions before she enrolled.</p>
<p>No move-in help after freshman year for our two sons. They both moved off campus as sophs. Each S has a truck so was able to handle it on his own/with friends.<br>
We did drive S2’s bed from home to his rental house and drop it off because his truck was too full to carry it. We dropped the mattress off on the way to visit relatives.<br>
Both went to instate schools that were three and four hours from home.</p>