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I lived on CC in 2013 - 8 years later I want to give some perspective I’m not sure where to post this in the forum, but this is as good of a spot as any. I re-found this website by googling an old username of mine and came across College Confidential, a website I remember fondly. I cared …	9	4988	November 2, 2021
Postmodern’ s Guide to the College Guides Having finished the college process for my 2 I felt a desire to make some small contribution to CC as gratitude for all I learned here. As we began the process, I got concurrently terrified and obsessed (a bad combinati…	26	7208	July 6, 2021
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I'm going to Yale! Here are my stats & advice as a first-gen, multiracial/trilingual, middle-class, CA public school girl with chronic imposter syndrome :) class-2025 , covid-19 , first-generation , wellesley-college , barnard-college , yale-university , uc-berkeley	10	7146	August 6, 2021
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Test optional @ the private schools: dinged or not dinged? class-2025	14	4548	April 3, 2021
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Choosing between UCs/CSUs: what do you wish you had asked/prioritized?	1	941	March 25, 2021
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I lived on CC in 2013 - 8 years later I want to give some perspective

I’m not sure where to post this in the forum, but this is as good of a spot as any. I re-found this website by googling an old username of mine and came across College Confidential, a website I remember fondly. I cared …

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4988

November 2, 2021

Postmodern’ s Guide to the College Guides

Having finished the college process for my 2 I felt a desire to make some small contribution to CC as gratitude for all I learned here. As we began the process, I got concurrently terrified and obsessed (a bad combinati…