Proposal to better deal with the Parents of HS Class of 20xx megathreads

Parents of HS Class of 20xx
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I’ll be moving our discussion to this thread to not interfere with the regular Parents of Class of 2025 discussion.

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In order to provide a better experience we have created a group for all Parents of HS Class of 2025. All members of that group can then use the newly created Parents of HS Class of 2025 closed forum. Instead of using this megathread to post about everything, please go to the above forum and start new threads on the topics you want to discuss.

Click here to join the group: Parents hs class of 2025 - College Confidential Forums

Access the closed forum to start threads and engage with other parents: Parents of HS Class of 2025

We will be creating these parent groups and closed forums for all HS Class of 20xx going forward that we’ll replace these megathreads.

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Won’t this not allow us to lurk in threads for other years? I gained a lot of useful information from the Class of 2024 posts.

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I can make these groups public if you think that will help.

Should the HS Class of 20xx forums be
  • Public (everyone can access the content)
  • Private (open only to those in the specific group)
0 voters
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Made the group public in the interim. If you are indeed a Parent of HS Class of 2025, please join this group: Parents hs class of 2025 - College Confidential Forums

I also created a group for Parents hs class of 2024 - College Confidential Forums
And for Parents hs class of 2026 - College Confidential Forums

Please join these groups if they match your description.

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I post on here sometimes and my D is a 24. I read something I might have info on and like to pass it on.

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Does it make sense if I move this thread and Parents of HS Class of 2025 3.0-3.4 GPA (or less) to the new Parents HS Class of 2025 forum?

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It does, however, I think you are going to still end up with mega threads with more chit chat. That’s not a bad thing. Friendships, close connections and support are fostered in the mega threads.

I’m trying to figure out the logic. Are you thinking of adding threads in each 20XX forum for financial aid, comparing offers, search and selection, etc? If so, that impacts what is posted on the public board.

If someone asks about a topic and a member tags an “expert” who is not part of the closed forum, will the tagged person be notified and allowed to respond?

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The current threads are very difficult to read. Everything is talked on here and it’s difficult to go back and track all the topics/questions that have been asked. The logic is

  1. break this megathread down into specific topics; instead of replying on here, the users can ask a specific question (that will be answered by the same people) by creating a new thread in this group; that way it’s easy to keep track of all specific discussions this group is having
  2. identify the parents that are part of a specific group (so all Parents of HS Class of 2025 can now have a specific designation)

The groups are not closed anymore and anyone can read/comment. People don’t need to join the specific parent group in order to be able to engage in these forums.

Does this make sense? Does it help? We had a discussion with the moderation and we thought this change will help improve the experience. However I am open to getting everyone’s feedback.

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And now that you followed the Class of 2024, it has you labeled as a Parent of HS Class of 2024. @groundhog74, you are a parent of 2025, not 2024, is that correct?

If you want to change your title, follow these instructions. Class of 20XX Closed Forums - #2 by CC_Sorin

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I’m so confused. We had a regular Parent Forum for 2025 (and a 2025 for 3.0-3.4). I joined the new Parent of 2025 group as instructed, but I do not understand how that will be any different.

I also follow other Parent forum pages and frequently utilize the search bar, which I would hope will still work to find on topic posts in any “groups”.

Is this change to assist in a migration or to direct to a premium version?

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This is far too complicated. lol Can they just be boards instead of groups?

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@randommom1, I explained above what the rationale is behind moving from a megathread to a dedicated forum. Do you think this is not a positive change?

This has nothing to do with the premium version. Was intended as a positive change for very specific audiences (e.g. Parents of Class of 2025).

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I’m equally confused! I actually enjoy the randomness of topics on this thread because they are all related to different things parents of this class year are experiencing at the same time.

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https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-of-the-hs-class-of-2025/3544712/2884?u=randommom1

I guess I am thinking the same chit chat will occur in the other group, so unless the “group” has other features than the “board,” we will have the same problem. If so, I do not support the change. If it will be different great, but I do not know how one would know to post there and not here (unless this is locked/closed).

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I admit, was made more complicated by the whole public vs. private discussion. Things are pretty simple though:

If you are a Parent of a HS Class of 20xx please join the corresponding group below (ONLY IF YOU ARE AN ACTUAL PARENT):

Class of 2024: Parents hs class of 2024 - College Confidential Forums
Class of 2025: Parents hs class of 2025 - College Confidential Forums
Class of 2026: Parents hs class of 2026 - College Confidential Forums

I currently created a dedicated forum for Parents HS Class of 2025 forum. It’s a public forum that everyone can access and engage in. Instead of using this thread, just create new threads in there, that way it’s easier to keep track of what’s being discussed. We basically break down a thread into several based on topic/questions. Nothing else changes.

Does this make sense?

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As said this change was meant as an improvement. If you guys don’t feel like this is helping we can continue with these megathreads and scrap the separate forums idea. I want to make sure we provide something that makes sense to you.

Let’s do a poll to determine the best outcome:

  • Continue with the megathread
  • Will try out the dedicated forum proposal
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I vote just keep it how it is.

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Sorin,
I get that some info gets lost in the thread, but what I’ve seen (in reading this and Class of 2024–I agree that being able to lurk on other years’ threads is helpful, both to glean and to give info, even if you aren’t a parent of that year) is that parents are generally happy to answer a question again, or point someone to the response that fits the repeated question. I do think relationships are formed and that there is more buy in to the site and more incentive to return and give back to CC when these threads run the gamut of topics.

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FWIW I really liked the mega threads for the class of 2023 and 2024 (my kids’ graduating classes). They were the one place I felt like I could just chat and didn’t worry about going off topic. On the specific question threads moderators are extremely strict, bordering on militant, about keeping the thread on topic. That is reasonable and makes specific question threads useful if people are looking for answers to specific questions. But it is really nice to have a place where you can just say something about your child’s experience as a sophomore, a junior, a senior, or whatever, and not have it be a whole big thread, but still connect with other parents having similar experiences.

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