<p>Have any of you visited campuses with your grandparents? What was the experience like? What were the advantages? disadvantages?</p>
<p>I never visited with my gradparents, but I could imagine it might be a good way to have an “adult” perspective on the visit without the pressure of your parents trying to influence your opinion of the school one way or the other. Even if your grandparents do have a strong opinion before or after the visit, at least you’ll be able to get away from that pressure for a while when you go back home.</p>
<p>I can also tell you that grandparents would be 100% welcome from the college’s perspective.</p>
<p>Will they be helping to pay for your college? If so, it might help having them there. If they like a school, they’ll likely help with more $$</p>
<p>Just watch out for what will probably be more conservative tastes. My grandmother, for example, didn’t want me to apply to Brown because it was a hippy school. Of course, I don’t know what your grandparents are like</p>
<p>I loved bringing my grandmother to my college visits because she doesn’t get out much and because she is my second parent for all intents and purposes (I have a single mother). She loved it, too! She is very involved in my life. Unfortunately, she also has a lot of mobility issues. She sometimes felt like a “bother” to us (not true), and there were a lot of things she just wasn’t able to do with us. But it was worth it.</p>
<p>Always nice to have your grandmother join you for these visits. Allows them to see the schools your applying to and gives them that happiness that their grandchild is going to college. I do know that my grandmother wanted to pay for my college education but I declined it after she saw Purdue. Kind of regret it now but she buys me a lot of other stuff. Always nice being the #1 grandchild out of 23. lol</p>