Threads that ask some question about “this college vs that college vs another college” and ask posters to advise without mention of the financial situation.
@albert69 do you mean questions like “which colleges offer better xxx program” or simply prestige questions?
I remember this one annoying poster who was very rude to every one and preaches about how Duke is harder to get in and how Duke is harder than Dartmouth. S/he was PREACHING “Duke=perfection”
here are some more:
How much aid did you get?
Does it even matter how much you received?? Just because I got lets say, 20k aid per year, doesn’t meant you are going to get similar amount. You can’t know what’s going on in FA office.
More than 3 “Bumps” in a single threads
Posts that say “Everyone has a chance” Um yeah mathematically you do but realistically there are many helpless dreamers who practically have zero chances
@paul2752, mainly prestige questions, not specific program questions. Like someone will be worried because one college is ranked 19 on a list, another 23, and another lower.
Any thread in which the student is deluded enough to think that he/she is the very first person to ask the question and has not bothered to use the search function, of which post 296 has many good examples. Others that fall into this category:
• Will it improve my chances to HYPMS if I am bilingual/publish a book/apply for a patent?
• Am I considered latino/a?
• I was accepted ED. Do I really have to withdraw my other applications?
@skieurope lol the third one cracks me up.
296 was mine btw, I feel proud.
Also, for some reason, there are occasionally some chance threads that have 20+ responses even if the original question is nothing special. I wonder why?
What about: “I am a Canadian/Indian/Korean/Japanese/ Chinese/etc etc, is it advantageous?” No,it’s not.
How about the instate residency threads?
“We haven’t lived in state A for twenty years. Can i get instate residency there?”
Or
“We lived in state A for 10 years but moved to state B 5 years ago. Am I instate for school A?”
OR
I really need instate tuition at UCLA but I don’t live in CA. How do I get instate status?"
I think a question like “I lived my whole life in CA for 10 years but for inevitable reason I had to live in 1 year in this sate” is something anyone would like to ask, but “I lived 5 years away from this state, can I get instate benefit” is just dumb.
What about this “I didn’t get in so you can’t get in either post?”
In chance forum, there is a poster( I know his/her ID but wont’ mention it)that responded to almost every single UC college questions, saying “I had great SAT/ACT score and ECs but my GPA was just 3.6 and got rejected from almost all UCs. I deserved it and your GPA is a crap too so zero chance for UCLA/UCD/UCB” blah blah.
I am very sure many of you remember him/her, and boy, the poster was SO rude! Also, who the hell wants to listen to your failure story? Judging by his attitude, he does deserve to be rejected, not because of GPA but his/her spiteful attitude.
Hey I also remember this kind of thread:
OP: “Can I get in prestigious college if I have 2400?”
we: "Do you even have 2400?’
OP: “No, but I am very sure my SAT I took yesterday will be a perfect score.”
We: “…”
Also, any threads that have hypothetical test scores are stupid and annoying
Chance threads from hs freshmen/sophomores
Here are some more:
Chances threads AFTER applying
Asking for chances for ED/SCEA/EA when the decisions will be out in a week
“I published a book, is it good in my app?”(already mentioned by skieurope)
Answer: No, ANYONE can do that. If you published an article in a respected research press, then that’s different.
“I want to go to school with a great football teams. Suggestion?”
Unless you yourself is an athlete, this is never a good reason to pick a school.
“I HATE MATH! Why do we even learn math?”
-I actually read a thread that said “I HATE MATH” somewhere in CC.
This thread is getting pretty annoying! Don’t you get that CC is a place for kids to bind their anxiety over uncertainty? Who cares if they ask the same stupid question that has been asked a million times before? It is new to them!
“What school is good for engineering?”
“I am horrible at math, can I still be an engineer?”
Well, CC is a website for college bound high schoolers, undergraduates, graduates, parents who children are any one of aforementioned categories. Yes, the website is supposed to HELP them, but not GIVE EVERY SINGLE INFORMATION to students who don’t spend their precious time in some researches.
If you are a high school student who plans to go to a college, aren’t you supposed to do some researches on your own THEN ask some questions? They are not small kids who think the world is full of butterflies and unicorns. They are teenagers who can and should find basic information they need. For example, when you have a hard math question, do you ask your teacher before or after you try to solve? Many kids would ask their teachers after some attempts.
Lots of questions the people here mentioned are actually common sense and silly questions, and since they come up lots of time in CC, they DO annoy us. For example, everyone knows that Ivy leagues have less than 10%(except Cornell) acceptance rates and that they pick SOME of finest students(meaning they simply don’t have spots for everyone) I mean 1 out 10 is anyone’s game unless you are either clearly unqualified or a cancer vaccine creator.
It’s fair to ask, “is it worth applying to Yale?” but it’s pointless to ask “Can I get in?” because we may tell them whether it’s worth application fee and time, but we can’t tell them they will get in or not.
I do understand their anxieties(because I was a senior last year) but that doesn’t mean they can ask us to answer every single question. Sure, we can’t expect students to know things that only experienced counselors or advisors would know, but how hard is it to find out, for example, “what tests do XXX colleges require?” or “how do I file FAFSA?” or “what schools have good engineering programs?” Google exists for such questions.
Many(NOT all. There are really stupid questions like GMTplus7 mentioned) international students-by this, I mean kids who didn’t spend high school years in USA-are exceptions to this, though; for international students, US education system, college admission system are more foreign and harder to grasp than they are to domestic students. What makes things even worse is that they have very few to no adults who would give them good advices, and believe me, some so-called “experienced” people or organizations do mislead the students with wrong information or skewed fact.(For example, “SAT score isn’t everything!” or “ONLY ivy leagues give money to international students”) Also, I saw some people who get annoyed by international student who ask for full ride, and I understand a bit, but it’s not really their fault. Media, literature, etc depict USA as a country that makes everything possible and floods with money(even though it doesn’t anymore) and how else would they find out such images aren’t 100% true?
This is a thread for venting about the most annoying threads TO US. I think people should be able to answer the question without being challenged. You know, like the “get it off your chest thread.” If something’s annoying to that person, it’s annoying.
We all know we don’t have to read threads which bug us, but this is one of those kvetching threads, right?
But I was annoyed and I posted … Isn’t that what this thread is for? 
^^^Yeah but it seems you are annoyed others are annoyed. Not permitted.
JK.
@paul2752 wrote:
Those are the kids I like helping the most. Often you come to find out they go to a HS where each GC is assigned 1000 kids and the parent(s) are recent immigrants and don’t have much if any command of English. Or the parent(s) never went to college or maybe never graduated HS. Or the parent(s) work multiple jobs to support the family and just don’t have the time or energy to be of much help. These kids are often truly on their own in dealing with these things at a young age. Sometimes other people forget the advantages they have if they have helpful guidance counseling, an intact family, and knowledgeable and engaged parents.
Chance threads in the prep school forum posted by 8th graders and chanced by 8th graders.
@skieurope 8th-graders? That’s crazy.
Now this title to a thread is odd - shows you that not all absurd questions are about undergrad college admissions: “Do grades in my undergraduate diploma matter when I apply to graduate school?”