Recent hs grads, haven’t started college, not headed to a top tier, who presume to make blanket statements about how Ivies don’t care so much about gpa, if you show “passion.” Not only do they ignore the low admit rates, they mislead an OP. Same for all those hs kids not headed to Stanford or Wharton who insist being some entrepreneur will do the trick.
The ones in which a user questions a moderator’s actions. Um, that’s against the Terms of Service…
Ones where posters have an identity crisis and feel that it’s their place to determine what should and shouldn’t be posted even though no TOS have been broken.
^Yes, that’s annoying to me, too. I issue warnings for that. Nobody has the right to dictate what people post unless it violates the TOS.
Not a thread, but I don’t get posters who haven’t one through the college admissions process in 5+ years and don’t have any kids who have been through it recently either but continue to check up on this site daily and act like they are the expert in college admissions.
Kids who give parents a needlessly hard time in the Parent Cafe or adults who do the same to students in the High School Life forum. Each group should have space to vent among their peers.
Every single thread with on the topic “How can I beat/cheat the system?”
Seems to me it wouldn’t be the first or last time parents would use connections to gain admissions to a particular college. I have heard of specific dollar contribution amounts which unofficially will get your kids into a given school (amount varies by school) so long as they are within realm of reason for admission. Issue for the given case though is it seems to me the connections were not sufficient to be of real value. Presumably everyone on a given board has a large number of friends many of whom have kids of college age. Connection of just friendship doesn’t seem to me likely to gain admission.
But responses did make me think of the issue of a spectrum of parental assistance which can be provided to kids. At what point does it cross the line from acceptable help to trying to beat/cheat the system?
The users who think that a moderator cannot figure out that this is a second username created after the first one was banned. 
Any thread entitled “Am I Screwed”. Snarky me wants to automatically reply, “if you have to ask you probably are”, before even reading the post.
^ Except that half the time the student asks it’s because they’ve earned their first A- in an AP or other advanced course.
Ivy league hopefuls who admit to sharing a CC account. Like they can’t figure out how to create their own CC account?
I failed some classes and my parents are upset with me. I think they are overreacting. They are driving me crazy. They should continue to pay for more classes.
I really really want to go to College A, but it costs $70,000 a year, and my recently unemployed parents can’t pay that amount…but the school determined I have no financial need. I’ve appealed…and hope I’ll be able to afford it after my appeal is granted.
Oh…and I’m a transfer student.
^^^ and I’m an unemployed student with two unempolyed parents and plan to take private loans to cover the $70K a year costs
And I “wanna live in a city and have a better lifestyle.”
@laurrodes, here’s your answer:
@3scoutsmom I don;t think it’s annoying. I think it’s thoughtless but kinda sad that both parents lost job,
@paul2752 The annoying part is wasting time looking for something that is just not going to happen, heck even if both parents had their jobs I doubt they could get a loan for that amount of money but op says he’s excpected to get the loan on his own anyway. This is not going to happen. He’s at a very good school that he can afford, yes it’s sad that parents are unemployed many teachers are unemployed during the summer, this is not going to get him the $$$ he needs.
Not as annoying as amusing, at least to me: Thread where student seeks advice on how to use his essay to convey to a party school that he wants to go there to party - without using the word “party.” Wink, wink.