<p>alamemom: Another click on the LIKE button. :)</p>
<p>You had written:</p>
<p>My first impression is that the parents are being a bit too vocal about their preferences. It is wonderful that the three of them are traveling around visiting and discussing these universities, but for the parent to dismiss a school the son “loves” by saying it lacks “prestige” or to push a campus the son has no interest in because the parents perceive it as “prestigious” may result in him attending a school they prefer but that he doesn’t like - and that is far more likely to keep him from graduating than large classes at a CSU or UC…</p>
<p>…I truly feel the parents need to vow to stop using the word “prestige” altogether and step back a tiny bit. Draw out of their son what he likes about each campus and what his reservations are about them rather than telling him what they think. He will be the one spending four years of his life at that school, not them. While I do believe parents paying the bill should have some veto rights, it does not seem the son is looking at any schools that will not give him an excellent education…</p>