Are parents allowed/ encouraged to make mid-session visits to campus?
We strongly discourage overnight absences for students in this Program. Students build up momentum working full-time on hard problems. That momentum is halted when a student takes a day or two off. Parents are certainly welcome to visit for a day and take students out to dinner. But if they go to movies or get involved with other events, they tend to be distracted from mathematical motivations and interests. They can watch movies and TV after the Ross Program is over. This policy might seem hard core, but the idea is to get students excited about the mathematical ideas and to concentrate all their energy on solving the problems (and to postpone other parts of their lives).
