Hmmm ~ you gotta' understand that when the parents have $100,000 and up invested in the kid's degree, they have a serious interest.""
Any parent today has more than that invested in just birthing the kid and getting it to age 18. The "college" costs are then added to above.
IF ANY applicant for a job where I was hiring showed up with their parent(s), I would not even look at the application, and I would take them aside and make it abundently clear to them that if their "child" was now 22 +, and needed their parents at this interview, why in the world would I think the "child" was anything more than still a "child".
The parents certainly couldn't be at my place of business and assist their "child" in performing the tasks of the job. What kind of co-dependent people are we creating in the USA in the past 2 generations? I have already concluded that we have bred the survival gene out of them.
On the other hand if the kid showed up with his parents and the old man owned the company you'd bow and scrape and say "yessir, yessir, ....."