<p>I am going to tour a school 5 hours away, I have the choice of taking my Dad with me too see it or just going by myself for the day, my question is do most parents take the campus tour with there kids or do they send there kids alone?</p>
<p>I’d say most students have parents with them at this stage. Kids going alone is more common for admitted students’ days.</p>
<p>At the tours we’ve done, the vast majority of students have a parent with them.</p>
<p>Thanks for answering I will tell my dad to come with me :)</p>
<p>Definitely take your Dad. Will save you a lot of time answering his questions as he can get the info first hand.</p>
<p>$$$ He needs to see where he will be sending the big bucks to for the next 4 years $$$$</p>
<p>Haha, he decided to come. Usually my dad likes to visit campuses within a 1 hour distance from us</p>
<p>It’s a huge commitment of money and trust on the parents’ part. They need to see what they’re investing in. Some colleges, though, will put parents and students on separate tours. I think there’s some sense to that, especially after the first few tours. Parents and students can compare notes, and students can ask questions unconstrained by parental oversight, while parents can ask questions unconstrained by fear of embarrassing their offspring. For the first few, though, I’m glad we went through it together, as D1 & I learned a lot about our respective expectations of college life by sharing that experience.</p>
<p>^^Never heard of parents and students splitting up, and I’ve toured a lot of schools^^</p>
<p>No one will object if a student shows up without a parent, but usually, both go on the tour.</p>
<p>In fact, if you want a perfect illustration of the statistical concept “bimodal distribution,” just look at the ages of the people at college tours and information sessions.</p>
<p>My mom went to me with all but one school. She’s an alumnus of a top school, makes most of the money in our family, and was pretty knowledgeable about the whole college admissions process.</p>
<p>My dad only went with me to tour Columbia, and that’s because my mom wanted to spend that time shopping with my sister in the Garment District. <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>As mentioned above, it’s important to take at least one parent on the tour because your parents are the ones paying (most likely) for some or all of your education. They’re also deciding where to let you fly to by yourself, deciding if you’ll be safe there, etc.</p>
<p>For the record, whenever I was on the college tours, I’d break away from my mother or father and talk to both prospective students (obviously not while the tour guide was talking) and the tour guide himself / herself. But my parental figure was still there to observe the school and the tour. And obviously we’d share our opinions after the tour was over.</p>
<p>My sons saw some with me and some without me. As a parent I kind of enjoy walking around a campus. I trail along at the back and sometimes I “tune out” the guide but the walking around part and observing can be fun on a beautiful day. My kids have no strong feelings one away or another (if I’m there or not). My husband will not go on college tours. Has no interest and really doesn’t care. I was shocked when we went to S1s graduation and he wanted to “walk around campus”. We’ve been there at least 4 or 5 times over the years and this time he wanted to walk around campus.</p>