<p>I have not been a regular on the CC board, however it appears to me that it was more popular when the old website design was in use. For eg. several schools have no reports or posts in the last thirty days. You would think that if you were going to attend a school that sometime in August you might want to know some final information. Or is it that admitted students have all the info they need by May 1? I realize schools like Skidmore or Wheaton, Ma are not as popular as harvard and Yale or even Kenyon it seems for that matter, but I am wondering am I off base here? Are there fewer posters to the CC boards these days? Maybe it is the month of August. Probably… I always spread the word around to parents and students that are in the college process. You old time posters or moderators bring me up to date here as to what happened to the activity on the boards…</p>
<p>Things get slow in the summer when people are on vacations, many of the graduating seniors and their parents have left the boards, and the rising seniors/juniors and their parents haven’t yet gotten anxious enough to find CC. Things will get really busy by Oct. as students prepare for the PSAT/SAT/ACT and college apps.</p>
<p>I think a lot of the people looking for information just prior to school starting are using the various schools’ boards–for example, all incoming freshmen at Emory are hooked up to Learnlink, and there is a lot of q-and-a going on there.</p>
<p>I agree there are less posters or it seems that way. Maybe less parents are sending their kids to college! And once a parent becomes a regular, they stay for years!</p>
<p>As far as the kids postings in the individual college areas goes…I think access to Facebook and LiveJournal for their individual schools are more enticing.</p>
<p>You mentioned the specific school sites…besides this being a slow time of year as others have stated, this board overall leans heavily toward the most selective schools. I’m not sure of the original intentions of cc, but Wheaton and Skidmore, though excellent small LACs, won’t get the attention that Williams or Pomona will.</p>
<p>Many of the adults seem to have found this site when looking for information on the PSAT, so I expect we’ll start seeing some new posters later this fall.</p>
<p>I noticed the same thing and mentioned to my D that I couldn’t believe that the kids weren’t talking about their dorm assignments and freshmen seminars, etc., and she said they were …on Facebook!</p>
<p>New applicants haven’t really gotten into the hunt just yet and the FROSH are gone…to Facebook and other things. Soon this site will be buzzing again and the stress will build and the leaves will turn and the tours of school reports will be posted. Never fear.</p>
<p>I’m a parent of a college sophomore.
Found this site about 1 1/2 years ago and now can’t seem to leave!</p>
<p>Info here was invaluable when our son was applying for fall 04 and now I’m hoping that I can give back some to the new parents arriving.</p>
<p>People-- it’s FEWER posters, not Less</p>
<p>Thanks for dipping into the usage abyss. I was not enjoying this, but I was reluctant to comment. I teach and drift easily to the schoolmarmish!</p>
<p>Thank you, again, enjoyingthis. It has been bothering me the whole time, but I was trying not to be a grammar Nazi. Glad to find some fellow gN’s. And… this is a great distraction for me as we sit in Baton Rouge trying to ride out Katrina, having been evacuated from NOrleans after dropping S off at Tulane.</p>
<p>jnmom
wishing you the best, as a fellow hurricane victim</p>
<p>may the kids bondand you get home safely</p>
<p>Well, summer is always slow as pointed out. One reason is it’s not the ea/ed rush, no acceptance/rejected/deferred/waitlisted/likely/unlikely letters have come, standarized testing isn’t in full movement again, and most of the frosh/pre-frosh are either gone or not as active because all those types of questions have been asnwered. :p. I could be wrong but over the past 4 years this has been a pretty stable pattern.</p>
<p>Well, gee, I appreciate the endorsement, fellow GNs. To discuss grammar further, let’s hope everyone in the path of the hurricane can flee farther inland!</p>
<p>Grammar Nazis take note: my memory told me that songman is not a native English speaker. Lest he criticize my Chinese grammar, LOL, I decided to ignore his (slight) error.</p>
<p>Yes songman. There are fewer posters. Many of the beloved have departed. The atmosphere has changed among posters and owners.</p>
<p>This grammar nazi has been puzzled by the increased use, very noticeable on CC, of “amount” for “numbers” as in “amount of faculty”, “amount of courses.”</p>
<p>A grammar nazi thread might be fun…</p>
<p>I tried to send Songman an email about this and was not able to, so pardon me while I explain the rule.</p>
<p>Fewer is used for things that can be counted.
Less is used for things that cannot be counted, things that can be measured in some other way.</p>
<p>You can make fewer sandwiches if you have less peanut butter.</p>
<p>We could count the sandwiches; we can only measure ( by spoons, cups, ounces, etc.) the peanut butter.</p>
<p>Pardon me for sharing this with all.</p>
<p>I hope and pray that all who are in the powerful path of Katrina are wending their ways to safer harbor.</p>