Oh, and I hate the ones where they rate their recommendations (“10/10 - he loves me!!”). Like they’ve actually read them.
^that. Love does not equal a 10. Will they say you are one of the best students they have ever had? Inquisitive, personable, cooperative, respectful, etc??
I’m amazed how many students claim that their essay was so good it made the reader (usually a GC or teacher) cry. Must be a lot of weepy teachers out there.
^^ I sometimes wonder if that’s not necessarily a happy cry.
One’s where posters say that they want to attend schools on the East Coast , but they really mean schools above the Mason Dixon line.
Threads where the OP has a mediocre GPA because they didn’t work hard in high school but the OP states that they are too good/smart to attend the schools that would accept them with a mediocre GPA.
Why is it I can tell from a thread starter question that the OP is a brand spanking new member? I don’t mean the innocent questions, but the SMH ones.
Ones where posters believe that their dear child attends the most rigorous , competitive school that there ever was and that in and of itself should make them competitive for multiple OOS scholarships.
@carolinamom2boys ^^Especially when attending the top high school is used as an excuse for a mediocre GPA.
The one where the op is desperate to understand their situation, but uses privacy concerns to not reveal helpful details. Guess what? Even if we could figure out who you were with extensive googling and cross-referencing, ain’t nobody got time for that!
When people judge colleges just by SAT scores
Posters who don’t read the thread before posting a question that has been asked and answered many times already on the same thread!
Posts made by people who feel that TOS don’t apply to them.
When posters, frequently new posters, post colossally incorrect information as if it were true.
They find out soon enough. >:)
Kids who decide they need more schools to apply to in January when a lot of state/safety options had either RD dates in December or earlier dates for scholarships that they would have qualified if they had applied earlier. So sure they don’t need safeties!
Links to sites with misinfo, usually what some private counselors claim, drumming up biz.
People who repost the same thing days later because they didn’t like the first set of answers they got.
Ones where the OP continues to bump a thread that has outlived its usefulness, because the the responses are talking in circles with no new info.
Ones that have been discussed ad naseum on the forum by posters who don’t want to use the search function.