Parents on open days?

[HealthyFats]

I'm really confused about this- can anyone help? When I was applying for uni, parents definitely didn't go on open days. I now understand that they often do- have you done this and was it actually helpful to you/DC? Did you go round together and just loiter at the back or are there separate things to do?

Yeah but DC don't listen to me anyway and they liked they got to travel on their own. But in all fairness may drive dc3 to some uni days that are more awkward to get to by train r, and DC3 feels less embarrassed by my presence

Leicester open day accommodation tour, nice student explaining that the communal areas in the flats in whichever block we were in were cleaned. All of the assembled company nodding and saying, that's nice. Apart from one parent, who was horrified at the thought of the cleaner being able to let herself in and get on with her work without having to rely on a resident being a) in b) awake c) not blocking out the world with their expensive noise cancelling earphones and d) actually willing to come and open the door🙄.

(Since he will have discovered that this is almost certainly the arrangement in most places, I suspect that his poor DD was made to stay at home and commute to the least-far away university).

have you done this and was it actually helpful to you/DC?

Yes and yes.
DD didn't have the confidence to go on her own, and most of them weren't doable on public transport. It didn't help that Northern Rail went on strike every Saturday for three months during the open day season, so the only method of transport was car.

DD also wanted a second opinion, and as none of her friends were interested in the same universities or similar courses she didn't have anyone else to go with.

I attended one talk about student finance and a couple of subject talks. DD went on her own to do various lab and department tours.

She went to one offer holder's day. We toured the accommodation together then I dropped her off at the door. She was only one of two students who didn't have parents with them.

DS1 decided against uni, preferring to get a job after university visits. He felt it was viewed as an extension of school. I took him to the town ( poor links), dropped him off, and met him later. He was in the minority. One mother asked about end of term reports, and another asked how they were going to protect her child from drinking and drugs. He imagined independent young adults would be at university, not children.

Unfortunately, as another poster said, parents getting the bill is certainly a reason.

Another is the tendency to treat young adults as children until much later. It's on here all the time.