<p>"Poof, new wardrobe! always thinking ahead … "</p>
<p>Love it!</p>
<p>“The golden retriever next door got in to Harvard. My S/D goes to the same school and got better grades/EC’s/recommendations/test scores. Was he/she rejected because he/she is white/Asian…?”</p>
<p>Everyone knows poodles are smarter than goldens. It’s not faaaaaaaiiiiiiiir!</p>
<p>Any thread that starts with:</p>
<p>HELP!!!</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>URGENT!!!</p>
<p>The parent poster who starts a thread seeking CC help in finding the right FIT for D or S. The original post is 10 paragraphs, explaining everything the child has done since pre-school. Twenty pages and 500 posts later OPs kiddo applies to every ivy and top 20-ranked school. Obviously FIT = top ranked.</p>
<p>My child won’t clean up his room/pull up his grades/go to church/ stop shooting up heroin should I pay for his college education?</p>
<p>If you don’t know what your family’s values are about raising your child YET by the time your child is going to college (ie, rewards and punishment, negotiation, college is just the next step of education versus a privilege you earn) isn’t there a problem?</p>
<p>My kid isn’t mature enough to take responsibility for managing his/her own college search process, but I’m about to pay $50,000 a year to send him/her off to a college that a defunct magazine assures me is just right for everyone.</p>
<p>“Any good summer h.s. programs in Assyrian neo-Aramaic within my tri-state area?”</p>
<p>because…my EC’s are boring.</p>
<p>There’s a huge, tremendous difference between the school ranked #8 and the school ranked #10 on USNews, right, right? I mean, the differences must be palpable, and everyone at #8 is destined to win Nobel Prizes while at #10 they are barely fit to clean the latrines.</p>
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<p>I’m tired of the faux-woe-is-me about how MY student is SO incredibly smart that he or she just can’t get ENOUGH of math/science/history/whatever and why, it’s like putting Albert Einstein in a second-grade math class to expect him to hang with the commoners, the poor dear. It’s such a transparent way of bragging. It’s just the CC version of being a pageant mom. Let’s hear it for kids who are just normal-bright! Because here’s the dirty secret … that’s all you need to be in this world to succeed … normal-bright!</p>
<p>isn’t the title/subject of this thread itself a perpetual college confidential thread? i’ve only been on here a year or so, and i’m pretty sure i’ve seen this “perpetual list” thread crop up a couple of times…</p>
<p>anyway, #125 and 126 are so true. LOL !!!</p>
<p>“My dream is to go to college in California/New York City!”</p>
<p>Always posted by someone with low stats and not much money. As more and more posters tell them that it’s unaffordable and/or unlikely from an admissions standpoint, they get more and more stubborn, telling us that they won’t let us destroy their dream, they’ll just try harder. They will prevail! <music swells=“”></music></p>
<p>How often do you receive land-line calls, cell calls, text messages, emails, skype, mail grams, &/or pigeon mail from your D or S? :)</p>
<p>I haven’t seen this one…yet…but I think it could be coming:</p>
<p>“My child is SOOOOO BORED in school. What college should they attend where they won’t be bored?”</p>
<p>“It’s always been my DREAM to be a musician/artist/actor/dancer but I don’t play an instrument/paint/act/dance…what top tier conservatories/art schools/acting schools/dance schools can I get into?”</p>
<p>XX College’s form asked for a 500-word essay. Mine is 5,732 words. That’s OK, right? Cause every single one of those words is CRUCIAL to convey the awesomeness that is ME.</p>
<p>Mac vs. PC?</p>
<p>And the recent ones…now reoccuring over and over.</p>
<p>Will I be considered an instate student at U-Blah Blah? We don’t live there YET…but we plan to establish it as our residency.</p>
<p>Can I apply for institutional aid after my freshman year at this “meets full need school”? I know I can cobble together the money for this year…but not future years. OH…and I’m applying ED.</p>
<p>International student here…where can I get a full ride?</p>
<p>This thread is great.<br>
(But it underscores my longstanding reluctance to ever start a thread on this or any other message board. 
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<p>How about the endless arguments about:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>the value or lack thereof of attending a high prestige school?</p></li>
<li><p>the purpose of post-secondary education: purely to improve job and career prospects, or purely for intellectual growth (with the arguers seeing the two as mutually exclusive purposes and expressing disdain for any opposing viewpoint)?</p></li>
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