Oh well, nobody likes a hall monitor until the thread gets closed. 
Be that as it may, my pet peeve at the moment are threads where posters have to list their resumes in order to get their points across. It’s almost always because no one can understand what they’re saying.
Chance Me threads when they know the answer.
Threads where kids encourage kids for the wrong reasons. Wow, you built a nuclear reactor! Shoo in!
As MIT likes to brag - shoo in everywhere else except them. 
Yeh. “MIT’s gonna love you cuz you’re sooo pointy. They don’t want rounded.” Kids really think the expectations apply to everyone else.
What is with the recent focus on “spikes” – it’s like everyone thinks they’ve cracked the code.
Posters talked about spikes or “spikey” last year, too. But without understanding. They seem to think it means unilateral, skip the rest of what grows us as individuals, exposes kids to more, as long as you can hide it behind “passions.” Bah-loney. And along with that, they think awards are a master “it.” Some are good, others are a dime a dozen, not so competitive, even if they have a fancy name. Some are just for doing for X hours, not for doing it better than someone else.
^^Yes, I think they miss the fact that you have to be already well rounded, then add the spikes of awesomeness to that.
You don’t suck at most things and then be super good at one or two-that’s not the good kind of pointy.
Kids should realize that if they have to tell the school that they’re the exception, they’re not the exception. The schools already know about the hook - star football player, son of the president, daughter of the super-wealthy development case - that will get them in with sub-par stats.
Posts where you don’t even have to look to see who wrote them to KNOW who wrote them. From the humblebrags to the holier-than-thous to the woe-is-me folks, you know before you even see the avatar. ~:>
Ones where a poster is requesting info on very selective OOS schools, does not offer stats until far into the post, ( which by the way are questionably competitive for admission to the schools that she’s targeting) , then proceeds to insult others schools by calling them " crap schools"
Since the general consensus is that chancing it useless, why do people turn some threads into chance threads? i.e. OP asks general question about elite school, person mines profile for data and says “you’re not getting in anyway”?
Often it is the most experienced posters, and they are usually right IMHO, but still…
The one where poster with son who recently graduated from 3+2 engineering program and received $80k starting salary and employer paid MBA program offer encouraging everyone to do engineering in five years. I really don’t understand the point of that thread in addition to simply bragging.
Instead of starting a thread, contribute to the correct thread…like the bragging thread.
Taking a break from the annoying threads for a minute…ED decisions for a bunch of schools are coming out now, and the kids are understandably frantic waiting for the results. I really like how kids who are EDing to other schools are showing support to those waiting for results. On the Penn thread (decisions come out in 45 min), kids from Princeton, Cornell, and NYU have all chimed in to wish them luck. Nice touch.
^On the other hand, I am noticing lots of first-time posters going on ED threads announcing that they’ve been accepted and freaking out the other kids. Real funny.
Any thread that says the poster has a unique financial situation because they own multiple houses, can’t afford their family contribution, or THINKS assets should be excluded from the calculations for need based aid.
Sorry…you are not unique.
Any of those Dave_Berry threads where he just posts a link to some college-related article. I guess a lot of people feel the same way since the majority of his threads have <3 replies and many of them have 0. Pure clickbait. I’ve gotten to where I just scroll past them anymore. Maybe it’s just me. (
@patsmom It is not just you!
Unfortunately quite a few threads in Engineering forum now with a new poster with a very strong opinion based on his son experience.