You are within the time window to edit the typo, @JenJenJenJen
Maybe if people followed the TOS , then the moderators would have the time to do some of the things that are suggested. They are volunteers , and I’m sure that they have a lot on their plate.I have flagged quite a posts regarding suicide, and they have been addressed promptly.
@thumper1 re#3163…I did something like that…2 years ago my oldest DD’16 ran into some questions that I never was able to get a clear answer on, so here we are two years later with DD’18 and unfortnately the answers to those pesky questions are still eluding us. That might explainna repost or two!
@bodangles Yes, that is very true, and I have tried to politely, a couple of times, offer advice to someone who I think seems depressed. Both times, the idea was rejected outright and the complaining continued. I just said, OK, but please reconsider what I suggested if you don’t find that your situation is improving. That’s all I felt I could do.
In a few threads, none of which hinted at suicide, I have suggested that the OP seek counselling or therapy. In most cases I was met with indignant hostility from the OP and in a couple of cases other responders.
^Yes, I’ve had that happen, also. I figure I’m still planting a seed in their minds - maybe they’ll think about it at a later date.
Where a poster with an abysmal freshman year (of college) GPA refuses to take responsibility for his failures and moans whenever someone tells him to do so.
Yet another prestige is more important than anything else thread.
Threads where a poster gives advice, and then 10 more posters give the EXACT same advice, with a slight variation of wording.
It’s annoying when a poster gives advice, and then ten more posters give the exact same advice, just with a slight variation of wording or formatting.
^ @dfbdfb Good one!
I read this thread just for dfbdfb’s comments.
^ditto
It’s irritating when a poster responds to a post asking for advice then more posters give the same advice multiple times! ;))
I find it annoying when after 16-17 years of life, a poster doesn’t know whether they’re a minority or not. Should they’ve figured that out by now? And to compound the matter, they can’t even google “Am I considered a minority for the purposes of college applications?” or even ask their parents?
@sushiritto On the apply Texas Application White is defined as “a person having origins in the original people of Europe, the Middle East, or Northern Africa”. It is a tiny bit ambiguous. Why are people from the Middle East not considered a minority but Asians are? There are fewer people of Middle Eastern origin in the US than Asian…is the application asking about racial or ethnic minority ultimately? I can see where it might be a bit confusing to a 16/17 year old, particularly one who is filling out an application on their own without parental supervision.
Even more annoying is the student who took a DNA test recently and found out he has African blood, and wants to know if he can check Black/AA.
Now that is something that really bothers me.
It’s all a subjective. I would think it would depend on how much African blood he had - I didn’t read the thread. Some Native American Tribes will give membership to people who have very low percentages of “Indian Blood” - and from what I saw on the common app, it only asks if you are a member of an Indian Tribe (which you do have to do some pretty extensive research to document and prove - a DNA test won’t cut it because you have to prove ties to a particular Tribe by tracing your family tree - and the Tribe has to approve your membership), but still, it’s possible a person could be 15/16’s European ancestry and 1/16 of NA ancestry and still become a member of an Indian Tribe and thus qualify as an URM. And some Tribes do give generous college scholarships so I wouldn’t be surprised if a few people haven’t used DNA tests at least as a start to document their NA ancestry.
Well, IMO a person who did not identify as Black (or NA or whatever) for 17 years, and now wants to check the figurative URM box is simply trying to game the system. Whether he can check the box is not the question on this thread - the question here is what threads are annoying, and this topic annoys me.
FWIW, as I’ve said often on this forum, there is probably no back-door entry thought up by a 17 yo that an experienced AO has not thought of first. As I’ve also said many times, AO’s are also experienced enough to know that all URM’s are not the same. A URM applicant that lives in Beverly Hills with 2 parents as physicians is not in the same bucket as a URM growing up with a single mother working 3 jobs and living in affordable housing in Bed-Sty.
And yet the question continues to be asked.
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