Threads were the OP laments that his CC doesn’t offer “fun” classes and wants to transfer to a school with more STEM classes but doesn’t have the grades to get into a four school and doesn’t want to take math classes or classes that involve math @-)
Threads that put down all state schools as being sub-par.
@TomSrOfBoston or how about those that complain about being waitlisted at UVA and UPenn but rejected at lowly Virginia Tech for engineering…the horror of it since Virginia Tech was the “safety/guaranteed” school that anyone can get in to, right?
Threads where a student with a great financial aid package at an excellent private university complains that it is not prestigious enough and wants to transfer to another excellent private university but complains that the school is more expensive and is not giving a good financial aid package. The second school will require excessive loans and borrowing from relatives because their own family can not make ends meet because they have no income. Student has no regard for family or other siblings that will need to attend college in the future. This selfish attitude and sense of entitlement I find quite disturbing. This attitude that I deserve to go to the best school even though my family can’t afford it and that I have to attend even if it puts my family in financial jeopardy.
Threads that start with "It’s always been my dream to … but they end their first year with a very low gpa. The student always plans to get a 4.0 the remaining semesters to recover from that low gpa to fulfill their dream.
I mostly enjoy the super annoying posters, even if what they write occasionally drives me up a wall. Variety is the spice of life. Even if it turns out they’re cilantro.
Threads where freshmen and sophomores in HS are asking for advice concerning which colleges to look at. Sorry, it’s a bit too early for you. Just focus on getting through geometry and biology first.
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Yes, yes, 1,000 times yes.
What’s wrong with cilantro?
I love cilantro!
Threads where posters mistakenly (I’m guilty of this) assume the thread is started by a senior in high school or freshman in college trying to decide their major. Later after a couple pages we find out the student is 14 and not yet in high school. That comes as a surprise.
I disagree that asking questions about schools as a Freshman and Sophomore is too soon. They need to start focusing on GPA and ECs early to be competitive for some schools, and some families actually begin tours the summer before Jr year. What grade were you in @LBad96 when you knew that there was no way you were going to school in NJ?
Threads where posters praise cilantro.
ETA in case it wasn’t obvious.
@carolinamom2boys I think @LBad96 was referring to one of those posters looking for a blueprint to get into a Ivy schools as a freshman. I do think it is a bad idea for a freshman/sophomore to get his/her heart set on one or two super-competitive colleges that early on for the following reasons (among others): 1) there is not enough academic information to know if the student will be a viable candidate at these schools; 2) a student’s needs/interests/desires can change from freshman to senior year and fixating on any school or few schools early on may make it difficult for him/her to pivot to what would ultimately be a better fit group of schools; and; 3) the very top schools will be a reach for most anyone with acceptance rates generally under 10%. In my experience the people who get most hurt by this college process are the ones who fixate on one or two hyper-competitive schools for years and then are devastated when they don’t get in.
Too many people view HS as a four year college resume building time instead of a period of learning, growth, and fun.
Absolutely students should understand that college is in their future, that they should work hard and do their best academically in the most rigorous coursload they can manage, that they should get involved in things they care about etc. But picking a specific college as a freshman…no.
Threads where you have to google the meaning of a word e.g. cilantro.
Aww, Tom.
Threads where parents are proud of their kids for stealing property from neighbors that don’t agree with their political views
@happy1 There is nothing in @LBad96 's post that says anything about blueprints for super competitive schools. It also doesn’t say anything about “picking” a school as a freshman. It says “look at”
With students applying to numbers of schools in the double digits lately, it’s clear that many are not setting their sights or hopes on one school. I disagree that sophomore year is too early to begin investigating options for potential schools that may meet a student’s needs. JMO
Yup displaying stolen property as a trophy to boot. Some people have no concept of right and wrong. Really do they think that if they are not Christian it’s ok to go around stealing neighbor’s Christmas decorations? If they are anti-LBGTQ it’s ok to steal your neighbor’s rainbow flag?
Well, we started looking early, for several legit reasons. But I think it’s when kids fret too soon, 9th graders asking, “Am I doomed?” Those (and yes, the “how do I get into an Ivy,” from freshmen,) hmmm, make me question the smarts.
But really, it takes a lot of resilience to hang on a big, active, opinionated forum like CC. When you don’t like what someone says, it helps to take a reasonable look at whether they just might be right.
Many here do look at one’s posting history, see (and remember) the contradictions or failure to move forward.
Get out of Massachusetts, @TomSrOfBoston , live a little. Eat some cilantro. See what your genetics says about it (soapy or good?)
Is there really a thread about stealing yard signs? In our neighborhood we just caught a woman stealing custom monogram signs (the wooden laser cut ones that you hang on your door). Everyone has little video cameras by their door now, and this woman (not from our neighborhood) was driving around in her black Chevy Traverse just walking up to front doors and pulling them off, in the middle of the day!
By the time she got to the back of the neighborhood, the word had gotten out on NextDoor and the popo arrived Busted her with about 10 monogrammed signs. People are stupid.
Back to your originally scheduled programming (as I go look for that thread)…