<p>It would appear as if the two groups don't intermingle, but a lot of parents insisted on accompagnying their students on dorm tours, and everyone I know who had parents met up with them at least several times during the weekend, taking up an hour or two (or more). Some people who were accompagnied by a parent spent the majority of the time with them, which seemed to me to go completely against the idea of CPW.</p>
<p>But whatever. If both the kid and the parent(s) agree that a conjoined trip to CPW is best, then do it. Both sides will learn something valuable, or more the kid will have a great time and want to come to MIT and the parent's fears about college and their kids will be attempted to be mollified.</p>