Yes, but there are some posters you wish would come back even if under another screen name – where has @Notelling gone? I miss her posts!
Me, too. Come back, @nottelling!
If she is logged out of CC and has not subscribed to email notifications, she will not be able to see us tagging her. Bummer. I miss her, too.
Posts where students are looking for a guarantee that attending a higher ranked school or more expensive school will ensure that they will find a job after graduation. I understand wanting to make an informed decision , but there are no guarantees .
There should be a sub-forum just for all the kids who cheated, lied on their apps, got arrested, hurt someone, flunked or got a D, etc.
Ok, there aren’t that many, but it is surprising how many are brand new or new-ish members. Is it spring break? Or is there some frat prank that wants to see how much interest a pledge can drum up on CollegeConfidential with some really odd questions?
Ones that claim there is a Profile EFC.
Oh and ask about their Fafsa FA award.
Those who claim school xxx FA is not what they expected it to be. (The school is claiming to meet full demonstrated need)
@thumper1 - I don’t know the context (ie. is someone claiming there is ONE profile EFC?), but I can certainly see someone using that phrase to mean the EFC that results from using the CSS Profile at a particular school. I realize there is no single “Profile EFC” but I could imagine saying something like “Our Profile EFC is about $XXX higher than our FAFSA EFC”.
You can say, Cornell calculated Family Contribution higher than Fafsa. Maybe you mean a college’s NPC calculation. But it’s not a Profile EFC.
I understand the distinction. And I understand that the College Board doesn’t generate the family contribution. But in a casual conversation, I would have no problem if someone used “profile EFC” if it was obvious in the context that they simply mean the family contribution that is generated when the CSS Profile is used at school X vs. when the FAFSA is used. But I have no idea what the context was that thumper was referring to, so maybe it was so off base as to be “annoying” (i.e. the point of this thread), but I was simply offering a different viewpoint.
A thread where OP bad mouths a nameless U for not matching the financial packages of the other Us since all of them “claimed to meet full need.” She then proceeds to be rude to posters who try to explain that each U has its own formula for calculating need and makes suggestions on how OP’s child can still apply to schools that MAY be affordable. 
It seems like a rant against nameless school and not at all helpful or constructive from any point if view.
^^^ agree on that post, @HImom and I take secret pleasure in the fact that no one is piling on like the OP had hoped.
The OP has full need met by 4 top schools and starts a thread to rage about the one that didn’t meet need. It’s hard to get more entitled than that. SMH.
This is the weirdest thread…
It’s like how dare that school not be as generous as the others and not give us the money we expect. Oh well, glad the kid has options.
Sounds like home equity is handled differently among various Us.
There seems to be a flow to the annoying threads. Prior to application time: “chance me for prestige schools!”. Upon receiving rejections: “these schools suck! I am (or S or D is) awesome and why did I (or S or D) get rejected from the top 20 university?”. Upon considering acceptances “why didn’t I get more money from school X? Must be a scam!”
There is another one about trying to make ends meet on a $245,000/year income.
“I just wanna be me.” “I don’t wanna do x and y.”
Fine, don’t expect that tippy top top to agree.
Then the adults who insist, “Just be you.” Fine, but “you” still needs to be what "they " want.
The constant need of certain posters to rank schools. While I understand that there is an appreciable difference between colleges, the hair-splitting that I see when arguing the ranking of 10 or so colleges just gets annoying. Plus it leaves fit along with specific programs completely out of the equation.
And the predictable requests of new admits to ask for said schools to be ranked so they can choose which one they should choose.
New visit reports where the parent/student complains that an urban college is urban or (yes again) that a Catholic college is Catholic.