@xiggi, yes, I was responding to your sentence:
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Doesn’t getting to the sixth school tell you all you need to realize
how irrelevant and trivial this metric is in a forum such as CC?
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I don’t see why discussing research amounts in a thread about research universities in the “parents forum” (where several of the participants are in research) should be out of bounds.
And whoever said that this thread should be solely about the undergraduate experience? Why should it solely be? Whoever anointed you the CC police anyway, @xiggi?
I personally do not take kindly to the repressive and intolerant attitudes of people who try to dictate to others what they may or may not discuss. There are plenty of threads on CC that I find irrelevant and trivial, but I don’t jump in and tell people that what they’re discussing is irrelevant and trivial. Why can’t you do the same, @xiggi?