>> you gotta' understand that when the parents have $100,000 and up invested in the kid's degree, they have a serious interest.<<
Yes, and they are proving it was a waste of money. It is not their presence that is killing the kid, it is the kids willingness to allow them to even be there.
I don't hire "mamma's boys" if I can help it. These kids are still children, if their parents are this involved. Companies want to hire adults.
You can't blame the kids. They've been raised with mum or da making all their decisions supervising every aspect of their lives, they've never had an opportunity to become people. My wife works at a college, she deals with helicopter parents all the time, she looks the kid dead in the eye and includes the kid's name in a question and before the kid can even open their mouth the parent is answering. That's the environment these kids have been in all their lives, they've probably never had a chance to order their own food at a restaraunt, pick their own classes or extracurricular activies in school, decide on their own clothes. Their parents never shut their yaps long enough for the kid to advance past age 6 in maturity.