<p>And the same posters posting the same responses over and over and OVER</p>
<p>Any thread that misquotes another poster. And I can’t stand threads where OLD articles are linked…oh and did I say every thread has a similar linked post from a poster? Annoying!</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve seen this mentioned yet, but the most annoying threads to me are they ones started by a new or very low count poster about some over the top, unbelievable situation. Then long time, seasoned posters respond to it as if it is legitimate. Occasionally someone will post a comment calling out the OP as a ■■■■■, but it is largely ignored as more respected posters comment and attempt to give guidance to the OP. Frequently these threads are locked or deleted.</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t know, I think those can be rather fun, in a sporting kind of way! :)</p>
<p>As mentioned a few pages back, and seen a few posts up, the use of IVY for the word Ivy. It is a vine, not an acronym. :-)</p>
<p>The threads that are going along as normal when a poster adds in an incorrect or irrelevant opinion complete with third-hand anecdotes that everyone knows aren’t true, and then exasperated fellow posters express their exasperation, thus taking that thread and countless others on the same old, tired tangent.</p>
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Illinois Virginia Yale?</p>
<p>In response to the differentiation of Ivies, the academic offerings are very similar, the student cultures are comparable, the locations span only a few hundred miles from Hanover to Philadelphia, Only the city/suburb/rural differences are likely to shock the uninformed.</p>
<p>For business, Penn’s Wharton undergrad program is unique; for humanities and STEM, there are not so many radical differences.</p>
<p>Blame “Legally Blonde”, and the TV characters who have coveted Yale and Columbia for starting the mad fad for the Ivy label. I concede that the average teen looks at the Ivy schools more like designer purses than individual educational institutions and stepping stones to their adulthood. </p>
<p>^Youngstown State!</p>
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<p>“Desperate!”
“I’m Screwed”
“Will I get rescinded”</p>
<p>And the OP is a junior or got a B- their 2nd semester senior year.</p>
<p>I’ve gone to reading the OP just to see if the post is really relevant to the title. </p>
<p>Threads where a student or parent bemoans the accusation of cheating, only to give more and more information which suggests that the student was, well, cheating.</p>
<p>How about the ones…“my child is going into 7th grade. What ECs should he do to be competitive for HYPSM?”</p>
<p>Fauve, I also blame “Gilmore Girls.” Really? Rory was accepted to Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, among others and made it seem super-easy to do so.</p>
<p>My least favorite threads are the ones from people who live in states with perfectly good flagship universities (California, Michigan, most states in the eastern US) who want financial aid to attend a public U in another, similar state. It’s their DREAM, how dare those schools want to fund the children of their own tax paying citizens. Or worse yet, want to go to a CC in one of those states/live with grandma so they can qualify for IS tuition. </p>
<p>These are closely followed by the international students without funds who think they should be able to attend a US public university on our dime or that someone here will loan them money to attend. That US school won’t give my kid a penny and I’ve paid taxes through the nose my entire life…</p>
<p>Amen to the above. </p>
<p>zeebamom…"the international students without funds who think they should be able to attend a US public university on our dime or that someone here will loan them money to attend. That US school won’t give my kid a penny and I’ve paid taxes through the nose my entire life… : "</p>
<p>Amen. Half the posts on this forum are internationals expecting to come to the U.S. They all seem to have mediocre stats and want to attend what they consider prestigious schools on scholarship. </p>
<p>Kids who can’t research the colleges they are so desperate to attend. Or who “know” what the college presents is bull. But info from other hs kids on a forum- well, they believe that.</p>
<p>And posters who tell that looong shot kid , “you won’t know if you don’t apply.”</p>
<p>ps. when the kid’s orig post mentions all sorts of financial hardships, sure they should be pointed to NPCs.</p>
<p>I also am bothered by the threads where someone says they will pay the full cost of HYPSM type schools, but not the full costs of “lesser” tier schools.</p>
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<p>A lot of us in Pennsylvania are priced out of our flagship. :(</p>
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That’s true, and I think it’s just plain wrong, But, that’s why God invented West Virginia University, or as some of us like to call it, The University of Southern Pennsylvania. OOS tuition, room and board there (or at any West Virginia public) is quite reasonable compared to in-state for several flagships. As a result, almost half the students at our state flagship are OOS, which strikes me as kind of sad, but hey, OOS money is as green as anyone else’s and we certainly need it. </p>