Sad thread more than annoying: A student (I assume OOS) was accepted to Penn State. He accepted the offer. Now he is asking how can he afford it since the cost is $49,000 and he only received $9000 in financial aid. And his parents only have $3000 in his college fund.
Oh well, we CC’ers just destroyed another kid’s dream.
The how did you pay for grad school thread - sounds like an extension of The Bragging Thread.
How about the thread from the student who has never played HS football but wonders if he could be a walk on for a college team…as the quarterback. Oh but if not the quarterback…how about a running back. And NO he is not being highly recruited by D 1 schools for running either.
Wow.
Watch HGTV tonight at 7pm central to watch my English teacher buy a house
@thumper1 That thread has to be a joke.
It made me chuckle!
I wondered if a lot of the new poster threads in the past 5 or 6 months were pulling legs.
The football post left me sort of … flabbergasted. That’s one of those threads that I don’t say anything, but just bookmark to come back and enjoy what others have said later.
One’s where a new poster derails a thread and vehemently and disrespectfully challenges any and every poster who does not share her viewpoint and actually wishes that members of a fraternity would be discriminated against.
A current thread where the student is “severely disillusioned with college”. The classes are awful and there is the same pettiness among students like in high school.
According to his posting history he is a student at Harvard.
Or he is pretending to be a Harvard student on this message board
The thread with the headline “Any breakfast ideas near [insert Ivy league college name here]?” Then goes on to tell about how their kid will be going to accepted students day at [above named Ivy] and they need a spot to hang out for the day. You figured out how to help your kid get accepted to an Ivy, but you have no idea where to go for breakfast? Oy, I can brag with the best of them, but please get over yourself. ANNOYING!
That fraternity thread in which the mother is boasting about being friends with the governor and on a board with someone like the dean of students at her kid’s U, and ranting about the evils of the fraternity system because her kid–who spent “all summer” rushing this one house–was not given a bid there, but at several other houses that are apparently beneath his consideration…and the kid supposedly had a virtual breakdown over this?
I know several others have mentioned it, but it is truly jaw-dropping.
Not to mention the fact that she totally stole the thread away from the OP, who appeared to be an entirely reasonable person…
^^^ what’s even more jaw-dropping about that one is that it took DD and me less than 5 minutes of online poking around to figure out what college and what chapter that poster is referring to (based only on the fact that the the poster mentioned that governor in question is female). If she had been trying to be discreet it didn’t work.
Chance me (because I have no clue if I’ll get in) and I’ll chance you back (because I’m an expert on these things).
People who are obsessed with getting into a top school because they think that is the key to financial security, but who then give almost no thought to which major they choose.
^^ Or the ones who are obsessed with getting into a top school because they think that is the key to financial security… and give no thought to asking their family to go into utter financial turmoil to send them there!
People who can’t understand the difference between on average and every time.
e.g., “It isn’t true that the average engineering graduate makes more than the average art history major, because I knew this one guy who made $1 million as a first year art history graduate. That proves your statement is wrong!”
“Will my admission or scholarship be rescinded because ________.” Honestly, with that much at stake, is it really that hard to pull all As and Bs in your last semester of HS? One poster was at risk for failing PE. How does that happen? Showing up and participating should earn a passing grade.
Threads from parents with HUGE financial issues already…who are inquiring about taking out a Plus Loan for their kid for college “because the school has their program”. Oh…and they have an affordable option.