<p>Does NYU send grades home to parents? Some schools send midterm grades and final semester grades. NYU seems to embody the idea of student independence, so parents may never see the grades unless the student shares. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Don’t know for sure, but I THINK this would fall under FERPA, right?</p>
<p>Gosh, parent pays and can’t be given grades, housing information, meal data. Seems a little crazy. I get it, in some ways, but still! Let’s say a student is starting to fail, or fall below whatever level they agreed to maintain when parent agreed to pay $55,000 a year. (!!!). Yet we don’t get the opportunity to see the grades and say “um, yeah…if THAT is how much effort you’re going to put into this…them I’m pulling the cash flow plug and you can enroll in our local college/university”. </p>
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<p>Hmm I guess I will just wait and see. I can always ask my son when the time comes.</p>
<p>I’m a parent and no they don’t send home grades. The only thing they send you is the bill.</p>
<p>Interesting. My daughter goes to Notre Dame and they sent midterm grades. They sent also sent a long email to every parent about keeping the the parent student connection strong. They suggested discussing the midterm grades (these are not even the final grades) with students and listed suggestions on how to support students. NYU is so different. I guess I am not surprised. I knew it from the start. I know my son is getting a good education there and I need to trust that all is well. I think I will call him just to make sure though.</p>
<p>I had to poke and prod my daughter in her freshman year as to how her grades were, she would hedge. I later found out that she was struggling with Chemistry. After she told me her trouble we encouraged her to get a tutor. She did and then it was easier to communicate with her about the grades. She was so afraid of displeasing us and being seen as not being independent and handling things on her own.<br>
So yes, it is a good idea just to check in and see how things are going. It is a lot to handle in the first year.</p>
<p>No, this is not high school.</p>
<p>You are right it is not high school. It is a lot more expensive than high school. </p>
<p>Liberate, are you saying that a parent does not need to know how their child is doing? I recognize independence and believe it is the ultimate goal as a parent, but don’t you think we as parents can be of help?</p>
<p>^ of course parents can be of help, but it isn’t a university’s job to monitor or strengthen family relationships, or to poke their nose into the relationship between parents/children. It doesn’t surprise me that Notre Dame does it because Catholic schools seem to care more about nurturing the individual, etc. That’s the vibe I got from Fordham, BC, and other catholic schools too.</p>
<p>NYU is run very much like a private corporation. Education here is a business: Someone pays tuition, student attends classes, student passes/fails. It’s not the university’s place to send notes to your mom or uncle telling them how you did on your latest Biochem exam.</p>
<p>I don’t have a strong relationship with my parents, and they’re not paying for my college (I do live with them when I’m not in college though). So to me, the idea of NYU sending my parents my grades would seem kind of ridiculous and like an invasion of privacy. It would be like a psychologist telling your parents all your issues when they’re not supposed to. I completely agree many would benefit from their parents knowing their grades, especially those that are failing or struggling and are too embarrassed or lazy to ask for help. But that doesn’t mean the parents have the rights to a student’s grades. College students should be learning how to become responsible, mature adults. I do feel bad for those parents paying a lot of money for kids who are flunking out, but it’s not the college’s job to monitor that and go running to parents.</p>
<p>They sent daughter’s grades to our home under her name. All of her mail correspondence is sent here by NYU. So techinically it is not addressed to parents, but, as a parent, I certainly had access if I wanted it.</p>
<p>p.s–To all interested parents…mid-term grades are up on albert. D shared them with me today. And to be quite frank, it is our expectation that she does. We intend to pay for her education, have allowed her to intern instead of having to worry about earning spending money, and in turn, we expect her to tell us how she is doing without resentment. It really has been a non issue.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I would pay the amount of money we do for her education if I felt she had a negative,attitude to us as parents. Pushing parents out of your life when they can offer advice is more a sign of immaturity than anything else. It is not the mature kid who has a “I can do it all myself …leave me alone attitude.” That mentality reminds me of a toddler on the brink of a tantrum.</p>
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I think you can specifically request for them to be sent home, but most people don’t get their grades sent home…i know mine are always posted on Albert but i’ve never gotten anything home.
not all of them, some profs are pretty lazy about grading. :)</p>
<p>idk, I don’t usually print my grades out and show parents, i just tell them “I did well” or “I got A’s and B’s”…they usually don’t push for specifics because they know I made dean’s list so it’s not like they’re going to get an email informing them i’m flunking out. Plus they’re not paying my tuition so they can hardly demand my grades. I think that the decision of parents knowing should be made in the family, it shouldn’t be up to the college to decide.</p>
<p>I thought all students rec’d the grades at home at NYU. We receive all mailed correspondence to our home address. She had already moved out of her dorm last spring when the grades came, so where else would they go? I don’t think she specifically asked for a print-out to be mailed. </p>
<p>I remember having a long conversation with someone in administration about whether NYU allowed a student to give a parent approval to certain records, etc, as many of my friends and their children were signing waivers to allow access at other schools.They basically said that nothing was in place at NYU and that they would not breech a student’s privacy.</p>
<p>That is why I laughed to myself when I took her transcript of grades out of the mail. It seemed to me that NYU was following the letter of the law, but allowing access at the same time!</p>