<p>googled for information & articles on a specific college, and threads on CC came up.</p>
<p>I also found CC by googling. I remember seeing a couple other “well-known” college sites and wondering, I don’t believe there are only like 5 people posting with questions, I can’t be the only one with all this angst, there must be thousands like me somewhere, where?</p>
<p>Of course I found this like chocoholic, AFTER all my D’s apps were sent in. Boy what a lot of teeth grinding I could have done without.</p>
<p>The moderators must know, due to wonders of web technology - do most people click through? Or do you have a fair number of people getting the info from GCs and other wetware sources (wetware=people if you are a hardware or software person)? But it’s more fun just to listen people tell for themselves.</p>
<p>I agree, Allumother. It is therapeutic for me to “talk” with other parents in similar “boats” as I am in. Who else am I going to talk with and find out info from??? </p>
<p>To answer the question: when S made a high PSAT score in 10th grade, I had no clue about all the National Merit stuff and I was searching for info when the search engine (probably Google, don’t recall) directed me here. I have learned so much from reading the posts and asking questions. Thanks to all who have helped me out over the past 2 yrs.(although my join date says otherwise - I was formerly known as just plain “tabby” but the new CC would not take it, so I changed my name to a more accurate one)</p>
<p>I had this Q on another thread but I did not get an answer…</p>
<p>Does CC restart itself every year, or nonly last year? When do they archive stuff? Will we all need to re-register one of these days?</p>
<p>I believe it was TutuTaxi and Chevda who told me about this site. Interestingly enough we know each other cyberly through another discussion forum - ballet related. ;)</p>
<p>I am tempted to hijack this thread and talk ballet - but I imagine there will be another thread some day where it’s more appropriate.</p>
<p>Or perhaps you could start one - either as a ballet in relation to college acceptances or over on the Cafe? :)</p>
<p>Have to be the Cafe. Apps are done, for better or worse.</p>
<p>Googling for information on the PSAT and becoming a National Merit scholar. Couldn’t help but keep coming back it’s so helpful and so many of the people so knowledgeable.</p>
<p>I heard about CC from a link to a thread posted by Texas137 on the Art of Problem Solving Web site.</p>
<p>Typed into Yahoo! “CMU Pre-College Program” and found this. What was interesting is for the first year, all I read was the Musical Theater board. It wasn’t until Daughter was accepted that I ventured out to the rest of the discussions. And there are some really interesting discussions here! I still read the MT first, then I check out Engineering Majors (got a Son whose a Sophomore), then it’s the Parents Forum and the Parent’s Cafe! I do a lot of lurking, but I really enjoy you people.</p>
<p>Peg</p>
<p>Googled the two colleges my son was deciding between 11 months ago! Expect to finish with CC when son #2 has, hopefully, had a chance to make a decision of his own. Though I am firmly committed to waiting around for discussions of sheets, egg crates, luggage and such…equipment!</p>
<p>CC was a link on guidance office website.</p>
<p>I was a regular poster on a specific travel forum on a favorite island for several years. I would get my daily “fix” there. A little before my oldest was to be a HS junior, someone on that message board mentioned she was in an email group to do with college admissions and as I had a child coming up on that process, I joined that email loop. I only read it but never participated but it was a group of moms who had been communicating about college stuff and their kids were now in college. But one mom on it would send out letters with resources and she once included lots of links to sites on the web. One was to College Confidential. I think I started on here when my oldest was starting junior year which was in early fall of 2002. I have been here for 2 1/2 years and oldest is now a freshman in college and the second one who is two years younger decided to graduate early so even before the other one heard her admissions results, the second one’s process began and so I have never left here. Now, I can talk “kid in college” stuff and “kid applying to college” stuff. Not sure what I will do next year but I like my daily “fix” on here and the folks I have gotten to know and I am sure I will be staying on. By the way, this took over for my daily “fix” and I have not visited my beloved travel forum in ages. Though right now, talking of the beach and what not sounds really good to me as opposed to waiting for these college letters to arrive!~</p>
<p>“I had this Q on another thread but I did not get an answer…
Does CC restart itself every year, or nonly last year? When do they archive stuff? Will we all need to re-register one of these days?”</p>
<p>Since nobody is answering your question … CC does not restart every year. What happened this year is that the owners of CC installed a new and more robust software. You can find the archives easily: there is a link at the bottom of each page. If you click it, you will end up here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/[/url]”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/</a></p>
<p>From there you can search the old boards via the search engine, or use google this website. To give an idea of the longevity of the board, here is a post from the time when Dave Berry answered posts. I am not sure when the “new board” started but this post dates from September 2001. Before that, there was a very rudimentary board that was quickly upgraded. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/70/109.html[/url]”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/70/109.html</a> </p>
<p>And even then, people were arguing about USNews rankings!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/5/84.html[/url]”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/5/84.html</a></p>
<p>And if anyone wonders about it … No, I wasn’t around CC in 2001 :)</p>
<p>I belong to a dance related cyber-board and posted a question in the Parent Coffee Club forum about the college admissions process and was directed to CC. I joined immediately but felt too intimated to post until BLUMINI joined and pushed me along. Thanks. :)</p>
<p>Last August, H was planning a college visit and googled to prepare for that. He forwarded a few links to me - the college president’s annual report, a site with student reviews of colleges, and a CC thread.</p>
<p>I read 'em all and got hooked here. </p>
<p>Like Soozievt, I seem to need a daily fix from a few news sites and/or an online community. While S and H surely think I spend too much time here, both benefit from the info I pass along to them.</p>
<p>found thru about.com US college admission info… tho i cant find it now but nvr mind! i am still addicted to this place since i joined 2 weeks ago!!
ps, wish me luck, my A-level results are out tmr!!! :eek:</p>
<p>I was a faithful lurker on that “other” parents’ forum in 2001-2002, but almost never posted because of the generally nasty, competitive tone. I read some reference to this board in a post, found it and never looked back. I am DEEPLY grateful that this site is so well-moderated. Although valuable info was available on the other board, it took lots of reading to find it, since so many posts were flames or utter nonsense.</p>