<p>I’m going to bow out of the middle of this one. I am not an expert on % of merit vs. % of need based…at any school let alone USC. I will however say that by checking in numerous threads on the number of posts by various participants, it is HIGHLY likely that many posters just hone in on thread titles, and don’t do lots and lots of thread searches. Self included. They/we probably should…but don’t spend enough time on any social networking site to get into the weeds too much. Those more knowledgable among you that do spend lots of time on this site (or any other board) will by defenition be frustrated by those that don’t. It does come with the territory. Rather than thinking of it as a waste of your time…i’d prefer to think about all of the compliments you are getting. If it frustrates you that much then I don’t know what to do for you…I don’t really see it changing with the amount of turnover on these boards, and the number of new and inexperienced posters, and college searchers.</p>