<p>About drain brain - my country of origin was very concerned about that. I went to college on a govt scholarship (based on an exam) that had 2 conditions: pick a major from approved list (STEM), and stay in the country at least the same number of years that you had the scholarship. Good deal.</p>
<p>Annoying threads - where the OP asks a question and half the responses are psycho-analyzing the OP’s motives. </p>
<p>Not to mention that questioning the motives and intelligence of posters is prohibited by the TOS. </p>
<p>Adding the annoyance of the thread “police” that complains about the hijacking of threads, or its similar variance of one OP trying to drive the traffic in a sole direction and confusing a forum with a personal blog. </p>
<p>No cousins or friends of friends of former bosses classmates were mentioned in the hijacking of this thread [-X </p>
<p>That said- there is a big difference between “policing” and making a polite request…
Now back to annoying threads…</p>
<p>Then there are those really annoying sanctimonious, holier-than-thou hypocrites who love to look down their noses at others in a condescending way, chosing to ignore the fact that they are just as critical as those they chastize for being critical. </p>
<p>Or those posters who have been here forever and think they are the doyens of CC and get annoyed or critical of newer posters who they think challenge their “established” opinions.</p>
<p>Or those who make up, project or believe stuff that simply isn’t there, presenting something as fact when it is fantasy. </p>
<p>Well, anyway…</p>
<p>Gotta say, chance threads as a whole annoy me. Common Set Data exists for a reason, and the average poster on CC doesn’t really know much more than perceived assumptions. It usually becomes argumentative, which makes the whole thing pointless because OP is typically looking for affirmation, not actual advice. </p>
<p>The chance threads are full of anxious energy. A bunch of 17 year olds asking each other what their chances are. The app process is long and stressful and all of that fretfulness has to go somewhere. Their chance threads are some kind of weird drug. Glad that the chance threads are now all in their own forum.</p>
<p>Chance threads are annoying, especially since so many schools use Naviance. That should be the first question to the OP of a chance thread. And if they have Naviance data available to them then you know there is some other motivation for the thread.</p>
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<p>The high stats ones want ego stroking.</p>
<p>Any thread where someone is asking advice for their friend, neighbor, cousin, etc. Just tell the person to set up their own CC account and ask their OWN questions!</p>
<p>Not sure how thread could be annoying. Anoying is something that one is forced to do against his/her will. Does somebody here force anybody to read any threads against their will? How? </p>
<p>Or perhaps annoying is when someone you never, ever, ever agree with continues to post with comments and opinions you think are annoying. Now, that’s really annoying!!</p>
<p>^But who is preventing anybody from adding such a person to the “ignore” list? I am aware of only one fact that does - 5 is a limit, it used to be no limit that is before they change CC to fansy format that has much less funcionality. </p>
<p>Annoying is when someone mis-attributes or misunderstands the meaning of the word and then explains their rationale based on that incorrect meaning. </p>
<p>MiamiDAP, you’re absolutely right. I should have thought of that sooner. </p>
<p>The most annoying threads are the ones where they go on and on about the unfairness of legacy students in the Ivies. Live with it already! lol </p>
<p>The threads where OP wants to know best timing to liquidate trust fund, or best way to shelter savings to maximize chances for FA.</p>
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<p>The threads where they can’t articulate what they like and just ask for a list of hardest colleges for their test scores. Can they say <strong>anything</strong> about what they liked or hated when they visited some colleges (“I would like to stay in the midwest and when I visted Notre Dame I really liked the Catholic feel of the campus and the wealth of intramural sports and school spirit is very important to me but when I saw Chicago I really liked the economics program which I like because of xyz and I am considering abc … what other colleges should I consider given my test scores and grades” instead of just asking for a list of hard to get into schools).</p>
<p>And threads where they assume that Texas is not friendly (because of something they saw on TV or in a movie??) or is all rural and hates asians and therefore they are afraid of going to UT or Texas A&M or Rice or SMU. People who don’t realize how urban and diverse and international Houston and Austin and North Dallas are.</p>