I’ve seen several threads lately from seniors who are looking for college suggestions but are neglecting to mention their parents can’t (or won’t) pay for their education. Ignoring finances is never good.
Some of my pet peeves –
–International students asserting that they “deserve” full scholarships to US colleges.
–Any student asserting that they “deserve” to get into a particular college.
–People asking for recommendations but want to ignore finances.
–People asking for recommendations who do no basic research on their own.
–People asking to chance them at a school when it seems that they haven’t even looked at the class profile.
–Posts where students blame their failure to get into a college on others.
The student asking about where he can obtain financial aid because his family owns 2 homes:
Perhaps a new “best interest” test of financial feasibility should become the new method of universities deciding how much aid to award. “It’s not in our best interest to take money out of our account to pay tuition and fees; therefore, I would like a scholarship for my snowflake.”
Ones that say a school is a perfect fit yet they are in the low end of the middle percentile and can’t afford it without substantial aid. If there are two major obstacles , then it’s not a perfect fit.
Dream= worthless.
Fantasy= worthless.
Mission plan= worthwhile.
Ones where kids tell parents they’re dumb for acting like parents. My guess is that they’d love to talk with their own parents this way, but wouldn’t dare.
^ ha, is thst the one where, even though gently advised it was a parent thread, the kid stuck around with his ‘I don’t get it’ questions?
I don’t mind the kids on the parents’ threads; I do mind the snotty brats who cling to their point of view despite being thoroughly roasted by the parents. If they’re that ossified in their thinking at that young age, I shudder to think what they’ll be like when they’re old and “set in their ways”.
Sometimes I enjoy watching a poster get “thoroughly roasted.”
^^ IMO that poster being referred to is not yet “done” and needs to be over the fire for a while longer.
Ones where posters believe that magical thinking will somehow stop their steady downward trend in grades to somehow pull straight As until graduation. And continue to use that magical thinking to believe that they will somehow be admitted to a graduate program at selective schools or Ivys .
…And where magical thinking isn’t accompanied by any sort of non-magic action plan.
I’m always surprised by students who admit they cheated or lied and think that expressing some version of “getting caught is the worst mistake of my life” to college administrators will lessen the severity of the consequences. They don’t seem to understand that wishing they covered their tracks better isn’t the same as being truly sorry for engaging in the act that got them into trouble in the first place.
I find this thread annoying when people make extremely specific complaints identifying one specific thread. Way to get in a low blow.
To the contrary, I find it annoying when several posters are referencing something and I have no idea what they are referring to. Feels like some secret society we are not included in.
MODERATOR’S NOTE:
Threads where the user comes here to vent over user comments in a thread s/he started, and then proceeds to throw this thread off-topic by having side conversations that could have been handled in the original post.
IOW, stick to the topic please.
Annoyed by threads when posters are not students or parents but ask to chance me
Annoying are the internationals who can readily pay full pay but want us to recommend private scholarships to them so they can be less of a burden on their wealthy parents.
Posters (specifically from Asia) who attend a top 20 America university but seek help with how to transfer out to “somewhere more prestigious” (read: an Ivy or Stanford, to which they were rejected the first time around) because the current university doesn’t have enough name recognition in their home country. I’m thinking of one specific current thread but I feel like I’ve seen it crop up time and time again over the past few years.
If the top 20 American university they attend is such a blight on their resume, why didn’t they choose a university in their home country? SMH.
A thread where the parent refers to how “we” wrote the essay and “we” were disappointed by being deferred EA.
Time to lower the helicopter blades.