The thread where a junior cheats in BC calc, is forced to withdraw from the class but says his/her HS is one of the top schools in the US and is a “make your problems go away kind of place” so the school didn’t punish him in a way that would elicit the story on his part of the common app., and the guidance counselor isn’t going to include that little mishap in the counselor’s statement.
Please, someone tell me that that doesn’t really happen?
Yes! They like to accuse people of being stalkers. (It’s interesting when thread-valedictorian-type adults claim this, also, whenever they are out-researched. LOL)
The threads that consist of political or social debate. So tempting to weigh in, but I have to keep repeating to myself: “No one needs to know what you think. No one needs to know what you think. No one needs to know what you think.” Ad nauseam.
People who obsess about prestige and rankings in multiple posts.
^^^
LOL but isn’t that the point of participating in this forum? To know what others think? Although I guess there are some people who just lurk and don’t want to share their opinions.
Knowing what others think is indeed the point, but I wish - particularly on the threads where people duel about prestige - that there was an obligation to back up confident assertions with facts. Even better: maybe CC could create a “Prestigiosity” (credit to @Hunt for this term) sub-forum, to which all such threads could be banished.
I’d also like anyone responding to a “chance me” thread to have to prove that they or their kid actually applied to and got into a comparable college sometime since the Pleistocene epoch.
@HarvestMoon1 and @DeepBlue86 I guess I should have been more specific. It’s not so much the debate, and I actually enjoy the posts on those threads that are dispassionate and thought provoking, regardless of which side of the debate they fall on. But there is always that 1 post (or 2 or 3) that has a “you people who think differently suck” tone to it, and I find those frustrating. I so want to respond, but there is no way to have a reasoned discourse with someone who takes that tone. Too much of that going on in society in general, so hate seeing it here too.
Not to mention political threads are against TOS, but for whatever reason some posters don’t believe that those rules apply to them
Students now posting that they have accepted an offer of admission at a college and inquiring about how they can afford it. They did not get enough financial aid. They are anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 short, and that is after federal loans. Most are new to CC.
That is why we always ask the OP in chancing threads what can they afford. (And sometimes are told it is none of our business)
Am supposing that’s why spots on the waitlist open up in mid or late summer - the financial reality hits them and they realize they can’t afford that particular school. Poor planning.
Recent slew if posts starting “Hi guys.”
We aren’t all guys.
I can usually forgive “guys,” plural, since I use it as slang, but being called “man,” “dude,” “bud,” “pal,” “he/him,” or “that guy” always grinds my gears. I try to use “they” when I don’t know.
^I’m guilty of that. If it’s not clear from the OP’s initial post, I’m not going to search through their posting history to try to determine their gender.
Any post that describes part of this country as “flyover” territory. As if there’s the East Coast, the West Coast, and nothing worth naming in between.
We’ve argued that before. Imo, it’s midwesterners who introduce the term. Sorry if my comment is annoying. But last big chat about flyover blamed northeastern folks. Not my experience.
East coast is pretty vague, too. Evetything from Maine to FL, throwing in Ohio to Alabama. Lol.
That debate must have been before my time. My mild annoyance at that term is not aimed at anyone in particular. And the term is not used just on CC either.
And yet this was written by a moderator: “Additionally, College Confidential is not a debate society. State your case and then move on. Nobody’s opinion will change regardless of how brilliant the argument, so don’t beat a dead horse. I’ll assume that the users who are debating each other will either agree to disagree or will continue their debate via PM.”
@cttc And yet it continues daily.
The moderator in question being me. And, yeah, I do have to say that over and over again for some reason.
The ones where the (longtime) poster absolutely refuses to use capital letters. Ever. What’s up with that?