@LaxKid16 you have no idea how badly I feel like giving them a piece of my mind and going super straight savage on them. a 3.8 being “low”. Heh.
What is annoying are the threads that ask for helpful advice and guidance in making a decision, and then thank people without sharing what they decided. And also annoying are the threads that get hijacked by know-it-alls.
@LBad96 - Yes, one OP listed a state award won in 2nd grade under awards. Amazing.
I find it annoying when the same topics/subjects are rehashed over and over again, often by the same posters.
To wit: Charles Murray.
Although a nit-picky person could argue that all of the topics on CC are rehashed over and over again.
I’m with you on that on, scout. One page of peripherally related discussion and nine pages of eugenics.
High school students that have a couple years till graduation asking if they meet the criteria for admission to prestigious medical schools. (what about getting into and completing your undergraduate degree?)
OPs who want to be chanced only on their stats. Great stats can open a door, but won’t get you through it.
I can’t wrap my head around all of these kids who are born into families where money is not an issue… :-?
What can your parents pay?
Money is not an issue…( until… it is).
And I can’t wrap my head around all the parents who say that money is not an issue but … it is.
I have met a number of parents who don’t even know how much the school’s their senior is applying to cost.
^^^This! Makes me crazy! These are the same parents that tell my kido to apply to schools I know we can’t afford!
To be that nit-picky person, I think we can assume almost everything about college admissions and selection has been rehashed endlessly. Still, the admissions game does slowly change over time, and sometimes new studies come out.
Am I an idiot for deciding to attend Harvard? I wonder if the OP is …
Just today I had someone say they can’t afford to,pay for an$80,000 college. I asked how he got that number. You’d think, by now, he’d have spent 2 minutes looking up the actual cost of the school.
Well, technically a college doesn’t become unaffordable until you have to actually write the check. :))
I actually find it kind of annoying when people don’t seem to understand that colleges expect you to pay from a combination of savings, current income, and future income. No, they don’t expect a person who makes $200K to pay $65K out of current income. That’s why they look at savings, equity in properties, how close to retirement you are, etc.
Sure, certain situations can be unrealistic. We, for example, had a share in real estate that we really, honestly, could not liquidate. Dependent on other people who would not agree. Nevertheless, from the college’s POV, this was still an asset that we had that other people didn’t have. Eventually, somehow, we would probably get the money. Should they give us more FA that a person who had no such asset with the same income? I appreciate their POV. But when this resulted in an EFC that was literally equal to our low-at-that-time annual income, it was hard to swallow. Luckily, our S was able to get into deep pockets schools that evidently understood that with the best will in the world we could not borrow against or touch this asset within a time frame that would help pay for college.
What’s annoying are threads that ask for help, advice and support and then act with hostility and animosity if what is received doesn’t fit preconceived notions or challenges existing beliefs.
@TheGreyKing I hate that this community somehow makes people feel like they need to clarify that they are not “knocking” Hofstra when comparing it to Williams. Should not be controversial at all.
Just my continued astonishment at visiting students discomfort over religious symbols at Catholic colleges. "If only Georgetown had fewer crucifixes … "
@Middleman68 From posts here on CC it is usually the parent who is bothered by Catholic iconography.