Claiming anecdotes are truths. (Not naming names.)
We all beat the dead horse, at times.
Threads about PC culture/SJWs/racism or lack thereof, seem to be the same people arguing about the same thing with the same arguments each time… but like a car crash I can’t look away :-SS
Pretty much any thread with the word “official” in its title.
A financial aid question written by a parent impersonating his/her high school junior. The original post and subsequent replies sound too mature and informed (and have correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization) to be coming from a 16 year old. Especially suspicious when posts are written during the school day.
@Madison85 if you know particular threads could you please PM me?
The threads I posted as a sophomore and junior that, looking back, make me cringe.
Edit: Or some of the threads I’ve made recently in moments of low self-esteem.
I am utterly over all the “What are my chances? Low GPA/high ACT” threads where you look inside and find that a “low” GA is a 3.75 unweighted. [-(
Getting annoyed by threads in the parents forum that really belong in a forum about college questions (perhaps the college admissions or college search & selection forums) with vague thread titles that give the reader no clue what the thread is about and then ask a question that no one can really answer anyway!!
The one in which an applicant was just accepted REA at Harvard and wants advice/chances/sympathy because she really wants to go to Yale but isn’t sure she’s a strong enough applicant. Yech.
Parent writing that daughter was assured to be a ‘shoe-in’ at Yale but was deferred, and later accepted to Harvard.
It’s shoo-in, not shoe-in!
Every thread that contains “shoe-in,” “defiantly,” or “Ivy’s.”
^Your write!
Maybe the daughter is really* into *shoes?
“Which Ivy League am I qualified for?”
Probably not the one in the Northeast. Is there another you had in mind?
-SAT I: 2350 (First take)
-Math 2 SAT: 750 (was so sick that day)
-AP Statistics: 5 (self studied)
-Chem Subject Test: 740 (not sending)
-Spanish IV: A- (teacher was horrible, did not teach us anything!)
When one is asking to be chanced, does it really matter what the reason is for one’s score/grade, high or low? And if one not sending the test score, why write it?
She might be into shoes - the parent also mentioned something about having a “leg-up”.
Any Chance Me thread or rank my list of schools thread where OP provides all pertinent information and a senior member immediately asks OP if they can “afford” any of the schools on the list. Yeah, the kid did not ask if they can afford the schools they just if their grades/scores/ecs are good enough to get in.
Any chance me thread. Period.
Worse are the ones posted anywhere outside the “chance me” forum (especially in the parent’s forum or cafe).
Particularly annoying are PMs asking to be chanced. Just…no.
Mentions of the French Revolution can be annoying.
What good is it if you get in if you can’t afford it once you’re admitted? Those “senior members” are only trying to give the kid a dose of reality so that they won’t be posting those sad posts in April lamenting the fact that they got into their dream school but their parents can’t (or won’t) pay the bill.