<p>With all due respect to these threads, jym, not only do the same threads recur in spirit if not in fact, but in some cases, the same people write the same stuff X years later. I found CC to be very helpful when helping my kids apply to college (especially kid number one) and got good advice from folks in various choice points later on. Although I’m not a big participant in online sites generally, but one observation is that there seems be very little learning among some of the regular posters. They seem to keep saying the same things over and over, impervious to input from others or logic or data generally. So, maybe it is better to just recycle the threads than to restart them. [Or, maybe it is somehow cathartic to state the same deeply felt emotional thing – e.g., no point in paying for expensive school or Ivies are not good or Ivies provide the key to success in life or AA is bad or AA is good and those who oppose it are bad, to caricature a number of oft-repeated post]. Usually reality is more nuanced. My own preference is for statements that are conditional or reasoning that is probabilistic, e.g., for which kinds of people is going to an expensive school worth it.]</p>