Posts from new posters who ask if a certain grade will keep them from being admitted to a certain school, and when given info that they don’t like, scream at you in CAPs .
Uh-oh. The explanation is in US history, mostly post Civil.War.
But now I’ll let us get back on track.
<<Threads that have very clear titles but are still dragged off track by a couple of posters (at least one behind bars) even when they are politely nudged back on track. They should start a new thread.
Threads where a poster denigrates and urges others not to attend all the colleges that rejected him.
Maybe it’s just me, because I’ve been on here a lot this year. But - threads where people include UCs in their list (OOS) and then don’t even want to talk about finances.
Threads where someone fails to realize that someone who was rejected from a total of eight colleges never actually says anything bad about half of them. Because there are no complaints to be had with half of them.
Threads where someone insists that a poster has a grudge against schools just because he didn’t get in when in reality that poster actually has legitimate grievances. And that poster explains those grievances all. the. time. And they have nothing to do with the rejection. At all.
Threads where someone has to CONSTANTLY repeat/explain themselves on the same point they have said on other threads when coming under attack from other users.
Threads which spin into the endless and unanswerable debate over which college or set of colleges is better than any other(s).
Threads with the same users constantly fighting with one another.
Threads where people bring up irrelevant high school GPAs as if they mean anything at all a year after graduation.
MODERATOR’S NOTE: OK, please move on.
Threads where the racists quickly come out of hiding. But maybe that’s actually helpful.
@doschicos It helps me know who to block ;
To the mods: please don’t close this thread! I only just discovered it and I LOVE it!
My 2 cents, because I don’t have the patience to read 100 pages…not a thread, but, any user name containing phrases such as ivyhopeful, or harvarddream, or sadanddepressed; threads posted on the college admissions forum when the title is “What are my chances at…?” ÔMG, did they ever notice the big forum called what are my chances? Threads in which the parent wants to know if their kid will get into an Ivy if they put Jr. in private school now?
And to round it off, threads in which people want to know the difference between EA and ED. PLEASE use google.
The ones where people assume STEM is the ONLY path to a successful productive life. (To be clear- I have nothing against STEM, but there are other majors that can allow for life outside your parent’s basement)
I’m nominating “Why are illegal immigrants admitted(with scholarships) to US colleges ?”
Any thread about, say, teaching methods where multiple people reply with actual citations and such to research on educational methods and outcomes, but the college-student OP dismisses it all by saying that they don’t like what research has proven to work, so it must be that their professors are simply bad at their jobs.
Not that this has happened to me multiple times or anything.
There should be a special waterboarding punishment for posters who spam the identical type of thread for dozens of schools:
Yeah, I just finished deleting a bunch.
Other super annoying threads:
"Am i gonna be kicked out cuz of…!!!
Can U hlp plz???
I wanna go to any Ivy or Standford…
IDK what to do???!!!???
So im gonna make this short i got caught cheating and idk if the school reports it to my college should i be worried what should I do?"
Basically, any threads in which the user assumes he/she is texting on a cell phone, rather than writing in an actual language, annoy the heck out of me. Poor grammar, when it’s clear the poster has been educated well enough to know better, is also annoying.
Where haters hate.
That’s more than being annoyed. And when long term posters do it, those who otherwise seem smart, I get the creeps.
Where the bossypants posters tell others what they can and can not discuss.