While the intentions of over-involved helicopter parents are generally benevolent, such intervention can negatively impact their student’s chances of admission. Graduate school admissions officers are be- coming increasingly sensitive to how well an applicant has defined his or her career goals and reasons for wanting to attend business school separate from those of their parents, and when parents lead their child through the application process, this lack of introspec- tion often emerges in the applicant’s admissions essays or evaluative interview. However, over-involved parents do not have to jeopardize admission for MBA applicants if they adhere to the core tenets of positioning oneself as.
