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<p>momofthreeboys, may I introduce you to a CC Classic… 
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/501191-meta-thread-save-us-all-time-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/501191-meta-thread-save-us-all-time-3.html</a></p>
<p>^^Yes remember the meta-thread well…glad you brought back up</p>
<p>Wow- you all had a lot more fun back in the day (I am in the midst of reading in the 2008 timeframe) than I have seen so far in 2011 (but this thread is getting there). :D</p>
<p>This and the $40k car thread. Some of us are enjoying ourselves a bit too much lately.</p>
<p>My guess is the guy is criticizing CC so as to promote his book:</p>
<p>[‘Crazy</a> U,’ by Andrew Ferguson, about his family’s college admissions experience](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506591.html]'Crazy”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022506591.html)</p>
<p>It got a decent review in today’s Washington Post.</p>
<p>I have to say, I mis-titled the thread. It actually, turns out, didn’t save us all any time at all. :)</p>
<p>kinder, you just have to know where to look. ;)</p>
<p>I have to admit that I had to quit posting on the meta thread because it became too time-consuming. That was fun.</p>
<p>ETA: I can’t believe that was three years ago.</p>
<p>If it didn’t take so much time, I’d log in as… Uppity Puppy. Think of the persona I could create around that name.</p>
<p>(I don’t have the time because I have to go review the Meta Thread which was created to save me time).</p>
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<p>There are a lot of kids in our high school demographic for whom this applies. Kids live at home and commute to the local state college (a Cal State) which costs $5K a year. It used to be that the local University of California was below $10K, but it is now in the $11K range.</p>
<p>Private schools’ tuitions start in the high $20Ks and are unaffordable for most without a scholarship.</p>
<p>But for those who want the “college experience”, this isn’t it.</p>
<p>Off topic- can I just say that you are evil, evil people. Do you know how long it takes to read the meta thread from the beginning? I do. So much for shovelling, laundry, cooking and all the other chores. It also has warped me, I looked at one of the other threads “Highest ACT jump” and could only imagine how you all could interpret that and run with it… It was a bit disappointing to find the posts so prosaic.<br>
On topic, I have little to say… D could pay not much (about $6K I think) to go to the state school she is considering and commute from home (which is kind of what she would like to do) but I agree that this is not the college experience I would want for her. But financially it makes a lot of sense. ETA- it was CC that helped me see beyond the labels of the schools to what was best for D.</p>
<p>Sure. But the on topic point really is that CC offers a lot of info to anyone getting ready to go to college. Test information, financial aid info, threads for the different colleges, information on majors, internship information, etc. Not just top performers.</p>
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poster#53 already took uppypuppy. Posters might get you two confused if you took uppitypuppy. Maybe momofuppitypuppy would be clearer. We don’t have enough “mom of XXX” posters around cc.</p>
<p>It never occurred to me to use a nickname I was given in high school for a screen name. Shooting fountain. Enough said.</p>
<p>Went back and read some of the MetaThread.</p>
<p>OMG, how funny! (confession: I even laughed as some of my own posts. I didn’t notice the name and certainly didn’t remember writing them. I guess I used to be kinda funny sometimes!)</p>
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<p>Sybbie, I think the poor lad does not know that SA is not really selective and admits anyone who simply pops in! I certainly did not have any toubles to get in and even scored a feebie beverage! ;)</p>
<p>I had nothing to do with.</p>
<p>OMG, violadad, can’t blame garland for the meta thread (other than for birthing it). Looks like you and I are tied for the second and third most frequent # of posts in it. The winner: HarrietMwelsch!! </p>
<p>Who Posted?
Total Posts: 1,463
User Name Posts
HarrietMWelsch 180
violadad 118
jym626 118
fencersmother 65
garland 59
GreyDad 57
QuantMech 47
cottonwood513 44
binx 43
paying3tuitions 43
nceph 37
Lafalum84 35
Pizzagirl 34
mafool 32
thumper1 30
mythmom 27
mommusic 26
lindz126 24
gcnorth 23
momof3sons 17
mathmom 16
marite 16
riverrunner 15
bethievt 15
MidwestMom2Kids_ 15
CountingDown 14
sherpa 14
historymom 14
jmmom 13
zoosermom 13
alh 13
dadofsam 12
vballmom 12
BAfromBC 11
sac 11
BassDad 11
kitkat82 10
Tiredofsnow 10
carolyn 9
Youdon’tsay 9
skrlvr 9
gladmom 8
BunsenBurner 8
soozievt 7
maysixxmom 7
JHS 6
Booklady 6
owlice 5
jonri 4
Singersmom07 4
Zetesis 4
sybbie719 4
GA2012MOM 3
2cakes 3
mizzou-mom 3
MomofWildChild 3
cartera45 3
rrah 3
menloparkmom 3
periwinklekitten 3
Grejuni 3
Muffy333 2
hmom5 2
jude<em>36 2
blossom 2
vulture3 2
PackMom 2
je</em>ne<em>sais</em>quoi 2
bicoastalmom 2
mallomar 2
ohmadre 1
wis75 1
astrophysicsmom 1
hikids 1
1down, 1 to go 1
memphismom 1
fireflyscout 1
emeraldkity4 1
FireBadTreePretty 1
RedHerring 1
Karen Colleges 1
Andale 1
Madison85 1
geomom 1
guitardad 1
tango14 1
sluggbugg 1
sryrstress 1
mom2three 1
somemom 1
audiophile 1
mountains 1
bassoonmom 1
JaneyPT 1
ellemenope 1
2by2 1
vicariousparent 1
NorthEastMom2 1
mikasauntie 1
chintzy 1
2331clk 1
patsmom 1
kristin5792 1
smile dog 1
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<p>And that excludes the deleted posts.</p>
<p>I thought our posts stayed under the radar… Even the Venus envy line…</p>
<p>Hah I stayed under the radar on that one but simply lurked by way through…</p>