I think it's ridiculous to have your parents with you. It strikes me as really immature, even childish, and definitely not professional. You're in your 20's.

Bring them with you if you want, let them check out the town, but don't bring them to school sponsored events.

This is generally TCR, in my opinion.

Also, I fail to see how being unembarrassed by my parents constitutes "actively" avoiding law students. I'm not going to be unfriendly to them, or tell them I don't respect them.

Your future classmates could potentially figure out who you are IRL from your posts here. It has happened before.
Anyway, you don't think they'll be able to tell that you don't respect them? Newsflash: people who go around thinking they are better than everyone around them are pretty obvious.

Plus, not respecting other potential law students just because they're doing exactly what you're doing is a pretty dick move. What makes you better than them?

Incorrectly assumes he respects himself.

Just for the record: I don't think I'm better than other law students.

Only acceptable reason to bring them is if they're footing the bill for either the travel or some significant part of law school. Even then, I think it's best that they don't come to the actual event unless you feel it's necessary to convince them that you want to go there (and therefore, their financial investment is worthwhile). Have them travel with you, then they can check out the city while you do the ASW, and then at some point, walk around the campus together to share thoughts/feelings about what you like about this school.

If they're not investing money into your law school career, bringing them to ASW is weird. They can come visit you when you've actually decided on a law school and are in October of 1L.

Then why wouldn't you give them some respect?

Because law students suck.

It doesn't really matter if they are there with you or not. Doesn't bother me either way. What DOES bother me is when your mom peppers me with questions because I'm not straight out of undergrad and I've worked in the field I plan on returning to after I graduate (especially given the fact that this school didn't have the foresight to supply coffee for much needed caffeine fixes such as mine). How the hell would I know what X school has to offer? I'm a "prospective" just like your daughter. Go ask one of the people in the red shirts.

/rant

At one ASD, I ended up sitting next to a girl who I tried to strike up a conversation with while we were waiting for the program to start. Turns out the guy sitting next to her was her dad, and he just completely took over the conversation while she sat in the middle of us completely silent. It was so awkward.

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Or, alternatively, if your parents want to help you they could have some effing faith in your decision making capabilities and deal with it.

How bad a parent were/are you that you don't trust your kid to make major life decisions with intelligence and reasonable judgement? This isn't undergrad where your 17-18 year old is going out on their own for the first effing time.

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Assuming respect should be freely given.

And you missed my point: your parents should trust you to spend their money wisely if they raised you well. And I did not intend to imply you were a parent... moron.

Yes I do, unless someone gives you a reason to take it away. Try it, you might like it.

I dunno... I think the 0Ls are worse than the law students, personally.

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Petty demands like "Please help me pay to make something of myself in a profession where the tuition has risen approximately 1000% since you had this option, mostly as part of a ploy to ensure your generation has a shitload of tenure track spots, and to keep paying into social security for your parents who will continue to vote against me getting grants or other education while continuing to vote to maintain their social security and other entitlements that benefit them and their poor choices regarding retirement savings?" or "If you don't help me I'll have to take ruinous loans, loans that your generation didn't really have to deal with, and that will likely be held against me on the C&F portion of the bar, the committee being run by a-holes of your generation that are totally out of touch with the reality on the ground?"

No wait... those aren't the petty demands we are talking about. We are talking about saying to your parents: "Hey, I am going to my ASD. I'll bring you back some literature. When I am done, I'd love to give you a tour if I attend."

Also, how many parents are knowledgable enough about the profession or legal education to even be able to see past the BS of ASD to actually know what is or isn't important? The most likely ones who can (lawyers) already know, and don't need to go. The rest just get in the way and make decisions about where they want to spend their money based on things like "OMG honey, did you see that your school is ranked #1 in INTERNATIONAL LAW??!?!?!!! Isn't that amazing! You so need to go to Cooley honey! #1 in International Bird Law!!! And their facilities are so nice! Where do they get that money, do you think?"

Is it weird to have your parents help you with moving in and stuff at the end of August if you're living in law school housing, or visiting you in the dorms, etc. To me, personally, I think there is nothing weird at all about this, but just wondering...I would definitely not bring them to ASW events with me though..

Decidedly not weird if you are moving far for school.

Nothing weird about that at all.

its fine, especially if your in the south, we care about family

But not grammar, apparently.