The holidays bring out the bored students.
Apple1893, posters who either endorse or dismiss based on the comparison to their kids-- “Well, my kid applied with the same stats!” Or, their kids had better.
And then you learn theirs only just applied, they haven’t heard results yet. Fizzle.
It’s annoying when students start new threads with misleading or incomplete information. Instead of saying your parents won’t pay for college and you make too much to qualify for aid just save us all time and admit they can’t afford to pay for the expensive OOS dream school that you want to attend, give us your stats, and let us see if we can find affordable options. Or keep doing what you’re doing and default to the state flagship they made you apply to as an affordable safety.
For the love of Dog can we please make it so people with one post can’t create new threads? I know I’ve asked for this before, but it would make the world a better place. In fact, it’d be a miracle.
Ones where a poster complains that schools need to revise their notification practices to be rolling admissions because their current practice causes undue stress to its enthusiastic applicants .
Ones where the poster asks “Can I…?” (e.g. "Can I only send some of my SAT scores?) when the correctly phrased question would be “Is it permissible to…?”
Haha, when they say, “Can I get into these colleges?” I want to answer, “Sure, you can; the question is will you or are you likely to?”
Sometimes I want to answer " Can you open a door or window?" @lookingforward
This thread is pretty annoying.
The ones that say they are not political…but they are.
Threads that nitpick high school students’ grammar on an online chat site. 
Ones where you mistakingly believe that a poster must be a HS student who hasn’t had much life experience only to find out that it’s an adult who should know better .
The kids who want to save money on college for the parents who make >$500K/year. Nice sentiment, but it still won’t get you need-based FA.
And $110K/year is not “lower middle class”
How can you say “your admissions chance is 12.1245%”???
You can’t quantify admissions chances
But I think we’d all like to say for, eg, Standford: 4%, buddy!
I am 97.6745% sure whoever said that was being facetious, @Jpgranier 
Threads in the Parents Forum where the OP is “looking for advice from parents” about something they should have posted in another forum. As if parents don’t post anywhere else, and as if I don’t obnoxiously post in the Parents Forum all the time.
That does not really bother me. Many parents will not be caught dead in HS Life or the SAT forums, as an example.
I am sick and tired of having my heart broken every time I read a thread here by some poor kid whose deadbeat dad has abandoned the family and won’t contribute anything or even fill out the forms.
Do people have no shame? No pride? Makes me sick.
Ones where supposedly parents have incomes exceeding $150,000 a year, but students have been told they have to pay all college costs by themselves.