<p>What are the most annoying threads in CC, besides:</p>
<ul>
<li>“What are my chances for____?”</li>
<li>any thread with the word “Harvard” in it</li>
</ul>
<p>Why did I know you would start this thread?! 
</p>
<p>Any thread with the word “Ivies” in it…
Especially any thread with the words “Ivies” and “chances” in it.</p>
<p>People asking you to edit their essays</p>
<p>I actually enjoy reading people’s essays alot, so I don’t mind those. For me, it’s anything that could be found out with a quick google search, or “chance me” threads where the poster just takes the top 20 or so schools of the USNWR without much research to any of them</p>
<p>Threads when the OP asks a question and then never comes back to check in or answer follow-up questions.</p>
<p>There are one set of threads that more saddens than annoys me, but close enough.</p>
<p>Any thread that reads, “I have 1850 SAT, 3.6 GPA, and a URM, please chance me for the Ivies”</p>
<p>What is annoying to me is there must be adults who teach that is the Ivy standard for some, as no Asian kid or White kid would realistically think such a thing. I find lowering the goal posts annoying because clearly kids are internalizing the message of I do not have to be as good as…</p>
<p>“How did I get a 2 on my AP exam? I studied so hard for two days. Should I pay the fee to rescore?!?”</p>
<p>Chances thread, particularly ones that say “I’ll chance you back!” </p>
<p>Uh, if you can’t figure out your own chances at a school why would I trust you to figure out MY chances at the same school?</p>
<p>@shawnspencer
To me, it doesn’t annoy me that someone is looking or help, more so that they’re posting it on a public forum. If I’m stuck on an essay prompt, I’ll Google it and get ideas from other published essays, and I’m sure most students do this. However, I know not to plagiarize. With admissions being so competitive these days, I’m sure a few kids have just reworded great essays from here and that doesn’t sit right with me.</p>
<p>“I got a 2380 on the SAT - OMG should I take it again???” </p>
<p>^^ My guess is that is the same kid that goes 0 for 10 at top schools. </p>
<p>@206377 I feel like looking at other essays is not as helpful as someone looking at and giving feedback on your own essay. Besides, it’s hard to find good essays online via a google search. Imo I think it’s important to have other people looking at them to gain a new perspective. Not everyone has teachers or adults that would look at them, especially if english is not their first language.</p>
<p>I’m also slightly bugged by the number of race related posts. “I am a _______, what do I need to get into [insert school here]” I think many people overestimate how much race can make if you are not already a qualified applicant, and vice versa.</p>
<p>^^ They learn that from somewhere; they did not just make it up. Adults are clearly guiding these thoughts. How many GCs allow a 1850 asian or white kids to apply to the Ivies? None. I love the word qualified because it is a ruse, just like holistic. Well, sure they are qualified, if there is a different set of qualification criteria.</p>
<p>STOP arguing about race, you two. You are going to get my thread shut down. :-w </p>
<p>The most annoying threads are those that start on one subject and somehow always turn racial. 8-| </p>
<p>@GMTplus7 - You are correct. Did not mean to hijack the thread.</p>
<p>If a thread appears to be annoying, I just don’t open it. There are lots that fit that category.</p>
<p>Threads that either start out as or evolve into a discussion of which individual school is better than another individual school, as if there is One True Answer. Such as: UVA vs. UW-Madison (there used to be a lot of those). Or Penn vs. Dartmouth, Vandy vs. Northwestern, etc. Often a student will start a thread asking, “which should I attend?” which is a fine question, not the same thing as “which is better?” The discussion gets silly when proponents of either school let their biases show and post as if one is nirvana and the other is a Motel 6 somewhere.</p>
<p>Threads started by disgruntled students or parents, usually in the individual school forums, absolutely trashing a school and every aspect of it. Interestingly, these are almost always started by newcomers who disappear after a few peevish posts.</p>
<p>Because I don’t enjoy discussions that go nowhere, I’ve learned to ignore threads on certain hot-button topics such as Greek life. (Though if I’m in the mood to watch a fight, I don’t always ignore them.)</p>
<p>Threads every April about how unfair it is that HE got into Ivy when “more qualified” applicant did not.</p>