We used to call our local community college “Harvard on the Hill.” :))
Perhaps, this thread. Time to close it ?
Heck no! Time to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of this thread!
I miss @GMTplus7, the OP of this thread.
I find it annoying that anybody wants to close this thread. :)>-
^ ditto.
@TomSrOfBoston “potted ivies” is a pretentious term for top LACs roughly synonymous with “little ivies.”
I graduated from Harvard on the Hocking.
Every single thread where the OP did poorly on the AP exam, even though he/she did self study the college level material as a high school student. Obviously there must be a scoring error; it simply isn’t possible that someone that bright didn’t get a 5.
Any thread becomes extremely annoying when the parents start butting in on a conversation that is mostly students, and offering the students lengthy/excessive pieces of advice.
The school A vs. school B which should I apply to threads when the student hasn’t even started sending applications. Why, at this juncture, are they mutually exclusive. Unless there is a specific reason you cannot just apply to both schools.
And vice versa, @thetex. Sometimes students seem to forget when they post in the parents forum or parents cafe who are the primary participants. Can be very annoying.
It’s not obvious which forum a thread is on if you are clicking on it from the “latest threads” page.
^It’s listed right above the title of the thread even if you come to it through the “latest threads” page, e.g.,
Home / College Discussion / Parents Forum / Parent Cafe
Only on the first page – and do you really check that before you post? I don’t.
No, look at the top of this page. You’'ll see what I posted as an example.
Maybe it’s different on mobile. Not there for me.
It is different for mobile .
99.9% of the time, I’m on my phone and don’t see which forum it is until I’ve already clicked on the title.
At that point, (when I’ve already been interested to click on the title) I may or may not happen to notice which forum it is, depending on if the topic hooked me enough that I am more interested in the body of the post rather than remembering to look at the forum.
It may also depend on how many replies there already are. As an example, I have no idea which forum this thread is on. It doesn’t show the forum on the latest topics page and just scrolling to the top of the page I am posting on, it doesn’t show.
Sometimes, that parental advice is worth more than all the student misinfo. How high school students think they have a read on chances, what it takes, etc, is a mystery.
For top schools, the blatant misleading is useless: “just get that score up,” “ECs don’t matter, bro,” “your school won’t report that,” or the ridiculous, “You’re a lock.” Or, “Win a national award and you’re guaranteed in.”
If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. And that won’t get you in. And if you don’t work on “getting it,” you likely don’t belong there.
And then you’ll complain it’s random.