<p>I have been intermittently active on CC for the past couple of years, beginning D1’s junior year. Neither of my kids has any interest in reading or posting on CC. I was wondering if this is true for other parents/students–or are there cases where both the parent and student are active?</p>
<p>My guess is my kids don’t even know this site exists.</p>
<p>Neither of my sons had any interest, either. But going to the parent forum kept me steady during the college search process.</p>
<p>Parents don’t know about the website (they think I’m on facebook or something). They don’t know this site exists and if they did, I doubt that they would have anything to do with it.</p>
<p>I tell my parents they should go on this website more often, but they don’t. Oh well.</p>
<p>My kids have no interest, but CC has kept me sane during the college process. And spared my family from listening to me obsess! I have met some people here who have helped us at various colleges, and I haven’t heard complaints from my kids about that!</p>
<p>My kids have no interest. On top of that, they tease me for surfing cc.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my dad is more active on here than I even know, haha. And my big brother who’s helping me in the college process is as well. I really recommend getting both parents and students active. It’s a fantastic resource.</p>
<p>Back when D1 was a junior in high school I started to monitor CC and post occasionally. D1 joked about it. One day I was reading some sensible comments from one poster and responded. This resulted in a short back-and-forth exchange. At that point I was curious where the poster was applying since her interests seemed similar to D1’s. As you can probably guess, she was applying to the exact same set of schools as D1.</p>
<p>This site has become my favorite ever since my s was a sophomore, he knows about the site, but do not use it at all.</p>
<p>coase, I thought you were going to say the poster turned out to be your daughter.</p>
<p>@Lakemom: That is who it was. Without knowing it, I was conversing with my own kid on CC. Some day I will ask whether she ever realized it.</p>
<p>That’s so funny :)</p>
<p>I advised my son NOT to look at CC. Too many super achievers. I told him it would freak him out! ;)</p>
<p>I know he likes to look at ******* and the individual college’s tumblr pages.</p>
<p>@coase that is very funny.
I wish my D. would come to CC. I noticed she checked last year just before she took the AP exam. The morning of the test she was so nervous so she went online to check tips for staying cool. 
Then she told me people said drink some warm milk and eat a banana. I asked where she found that, she said “college confidential.”</p>
<p>That is very funny @ Coase! Back when my D was applying for Musical Theater programs, I found CC to be a fantastic resource for the audition process, as our high school counselor knew next to nothing about it. Now our youngest is waiting to hear from his final schools. Neither kid ever uses this, and like Lorelaigirl, I have told my son not to look at it. This process is stressful enough w/o reading about the uber-geniuses who post on this site, and knowing that is who you may be competing with. Sometimes I think it was better before sites like this existed and applicants just had to wait for a hard copy letter to tell them if they got in or not- no hearing stories from others about already being accepted!</p>
<p>My son would never post on cc but he has taken the advice I tell him that I got from cc. When my son was in 11th grade, I had asked on cc how did people spaced out all their SAT and AP testing to not be overwhelmed in Sr year. </p>
<p>4 pages filled quickly up and one very nice student wrote out exactly month by month what he did. I printed it and showed it to my son and he said, “Ok, I’ll do it that way”</p>
<p>DS1 knows I’m on CC but has no interest in posting on here. He does however listen when I tell him about something I’ve read on here.:)</p>
<p>My kids know that I hang out on CC, but have no interest in coming here themselves. I’ve occasionally passed on insights or interesting threads to them. They humor me by listening to me.</p>
<p>My son refuses to visit here. He is “too laid back” to worry like all the type As on this site…He is willing to listen to the advice I learn from the site.</p>
<p>He will admit over half his college list was due to things I relayed from here.</p>