Yes, those who make it sound so urgent, then disappear.
And those who claim the thread is for a friend or “my little brother.” Or someone else’s kid.
Those who ‘bump’ their post after a few hours.
People who ask a question on the Financial Aid forum expecting a uniform answer that applies to all colleges everywhere all of the time.
Parent entitlement rants about their snowflake deserving to go to _________.
New term: Snowflake Dad
Definition: Upperclass male parent of a mediocre stats high school child indulged in European trips who believes his unemployed progeny is utterly amazing, has a way about her/him, and is unmatched on earth in ability and potential, thus deserving of an equally amazing name-brand school costing him not more than $25k/year
By far the most annoying threads to me are those where the OP assumes everyone desires to go to the USNWR top ranked national schools. It’s not even a question… you either want to go to one of these schools, or you are a weirdo.
Runner up, and along the same lines as the first one, are threads where people make assumptions about schools they know very little or nothing about. “School A is much more academically focused than School B”, or “UC such-and-such is more challenging than UC XX”
And third place goes to the threads where people ask ridiculous, completely subjective questions like “Which school has the prettiest campus?”, or “Which school has the best social atmosphere?”
@fractalmstr when they say social atmosphere do they mean parties and frat/sorority?
@Madison85, you forgot to add the part about Snowflake Dad’s progeny definitely being a CEO someday.
People who justify lying and cheating. No, its not ok.
Exactly
Students who seek advice or help from parents, don’t like the answers they receive, and then turn around and attack, dismiss or insult the very people who were trying to help them.
(Not that half the posts in this thread over the last 24 hours have been thinking of the same other thread, no, not at all…) :^o
@dfbdfb, unfortunately, I can think of SEVERAL from the past few months.
The posts where the kid has a 35, insists that bc this is top 1% and so so rare, we must not understand what he is asking bc of course he’ll get into Harvard, right?
I try to stay out of tax advice unless I see it given incorrectly. Generally people just need to know where to look bc these tax questions are very simple.
Threads that insist admissions is rigged.
Threads (or more specifically replies) that continue to offer solutions and advice long after the issue is resolved. I wish there was a way an OP could add an update to the original post AT THE TOP so we know it’s resolved. I think people read the original post, skim a couple replies and then answer without seeing that the situation is already resolved. (Not that I blame them, some threads get really too long to read every reply and that info can get lost!)
Threads entitled “My GPA isn’t good but I belong in a top school”
Threads titled “Chance my 4.0 GPA for top colleges!” but it turns out to actually be a first-semester freshman who plans to get a 4.0.
When the OP says…“I won’t apply to in-state schools because it would be high school all over again.”
Jeez, on a campus of thousands of people do you think you’ll be seeing your high school study body president every day?
When they ask same question that could be answered by posts that were already written.
Oh also, kids with hypothetical grades. Just study hard for heaven’s sake