This is not an annoying thread per se but I am extremely annoyed at these parents:
Parents must sit down with their student and go over the family finances at the start of the application process.
^^Not to mention the fact that they must have signed the ED agreement, right? And it is unlikely that the EFC at their state schools was a surprise, right?
I don’t like the idea of dream schools, anyway. Dream sounds more wishful than substantive. Top choice or first choice would be ok.
@lookingforward and not to mention how “terrible” and “heartbreaking” it must be for them when they can’t get in schools they like.
There is a recent surge in the number of posts written without punctuation and capital letters in which the posters ask many questions about how to get into top schools. Less annoying is that these posts don’t tend to get a lot of responses.
Posts that use footnotes.
Hey, now, some of us are academics and can’t help it. 
@CheddarcheeseMN (post 2205) the reason for that poor formatting is that many posters are using the mobile app and typing in using their phones. This will be with us forever.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT…my safety is one of the bottom feeder Ivies. Ya know, like Brown. I’m in the mid-50 of their stats, so…
@T26E4 my phone auto capitalizes. There’s no excuse-those kids are just too lazy to bother capitalizing. Luckily, I usually can’t be bothered to respond, so it all works out :D.
Threads where not getting into the state flagship that a student is not really interested in anyway is referred to as a tragedy.
Yeah, but some completely over use them, not to attribute credit for an idea, but instead to expand upon the idea. They are annoying as heck and really break up the flow. They are completely unnecessary, as these explanations/examples/clarifications could easily be integrated into the paragraph itself.
Threads where a poster states his child did not prep for the PSAT and then complains that his child didn’t make National Merit.
^and then proceeds to brag that said child is better than an NMF and deserves to be rewarded at least as much as an NMF. Sigh.
Others have lamented this here previously, but it continues to happen, so will add a whine to the chorus:
Annoying are the threads where the OP links an article with only a thread title and the article link. If you can’t be bothered to provide a sentence or two about the article, or copy/paste the first few sentences form the article, don’t expect readers to be bothered to open the link. Feels like click bait.
(1) That bothers me too.
Posts that make a weak attempt at humor 
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Posts in which students claim that they were straight-A students in HS and had great test scores, but are apparently unable to use adverbs and talk about “graduating HS” rather than graduating FROM high school, dammit! (Sorry, a pet peeve.)
But I have been scolded in the past for taking a dim view of students for these reasons. B-)
Not making excuses for them, but ‘graduating hs’ is the Euro construct.
I just can’t get behind kids who have the grades, maybe even the scores, but not the thinking or energy. They must really think college is just grades 13-14 and then a little pre-professional specialization.