It used to be that the Café subtopic was for essentially “non-substantive” discussions like “Prep Schools in one word” or “March 10 freak out”. It seems that more recently people have posted more substantive discussions in the Café, or had them moved there by our esteemed moderator. I wish we could go back to using the Café as it previously was used, because then I could just continue to ignore it. I see nothing wrong with having one substantive forum that covers both admissions to BS and also life at BS in one place. I do, however, really like having a separate subtopic for parents, and would be really sad if that got merged into all the rest.