<p>soozievt - I am fairly new to CC, and by nature, skeptical. I too then would probably researches past posts if something was grossly misleading or exagerated.</p>
<p>SLUMOM…I have noticed some of those posts on that thread too. That is a little different than lying. What I think it is about is that what one person thinks is a low academic profile, another thinks is a very good one. For instance, I have seen CC posts (not that thread) where they are moaning of low SAT scores of 1390 CR/M and it is all one’s perspective. I have students who have a combined SAT CR/M score of 900 and so what one thinks is low would be considered extremely high by someone else. Some think taking just two AP classes is a low profile when I have many students who have taken the easiest high school curriculum with no Honors or AP classes and just three years of foreign language and no higher than Algebra II. On CC, there are so many top achievers that what some call “low” here is not low at all in the scheme of college admissions. I know kids with truly LOW profiles. Here, someone thinks a 3.4 is a low GPA and I have students with a 2.8 GPA. However, I do agree that for the purposes of that thread, people should keep to the general ballpark that that thread intended.</p>
<p>Checking a poster’s past history is extremely important on CC. I, myself, use the Adam Lambert Litmus Test. Anyone who doesn’t “get” Adam, can have nothing meaningful to say.</p>
<p>blankmind^^^^^ uh oh, am I in trouble or what?? LOL I did not follow AI this year and while I have heard of Adam Lambert, I don’t know enough about him to even comment. I hear he is very talented. I don’t know if I get or don’t get him…don’t know! Uh oh. And I even have a kid of my own who is a contemporary singer/performer. </p>
<p>But hey, does my post count help a little?? Pretty please?</p>
<p>Haha some dude sent me a PM saying he wanted to read my application essay and he was going to Dartmouth next year but when I read his posts he was actually in the application pool as me.</p>
<p>Yeah, soozievt, you win the sweepstakes for post counts!! I’ve been reading your posts for years!!</p>
<p>And, if somebody looked back at all my posts, there’d be discrepencies because I have been posting about 3 different sons over the years, all with different stats. I’m finally on the last one, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to step back from CC - is there a 12 step program somewhere? :)</p>
<p>I first noticed this a bb I posted on over 10 years ago. The person unmasked themselves and roundly mocked those of us who had sought to be helpful. I was suprised and had to think about how to procede.</p>
<p>I decided that I will approach people on-line as if they are telling the truth. I am very skeptical in real life and it’s too tiring on-line. It’s not as if I’m sending money or offering my home address on-line.</p>
<p>Hum… I believe responses from CCers clearly defined whether they are favorable or not. I could pretend to get “Adam”, and embarqued on a discussion about him, but I have NO idea who Adam is. I know about Litmus test, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>It remains to be seen, soozievt. Your post count is truly impressive, but you are obviously still in the Adam education process, so we’ll wait and see how that turns out.:)</p>
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<p>Well if I wanted entertainment (of that sort), I’d read People. </p>
<p>Here are some examples of why one would look to post history to help answer a question or gain information relevant to the purpose of this board.</p>
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<li><p>You or your child is applying to a certain school and you are looking at the “accepted” thread to see if you can find anyone with similar stats. You see someone who has a similar GPA, but don’t know if all aspects are comparable, so you look back to see if they shared scores, ECs, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>You are a student or have a child who is at a particular achievement level and you are trying to refine the list of colleges that would make sense. You look for other people at a similar level to see what colleges they may be considering, and look at past posts to get an idea as to how much they may be “like” you.</p></li>
<li><p>You read a review of a particular college and you want to see if you might have a similar opinion based on whether you may come from a “place” (geographic or behavioral) that is similar to the reviewer.</p></li>
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<p>There are a million reasons to want to look back to post history that have nothing to do with “catching” someone. In fact, the first time I saw a discrepancy I was quite surprised as I just never would have expected it.</p>
<p>As for the 3.0 to 3.3 thread, I want to make it clear that I’m not specifically referring to that particular thread, although I did start the thread with the intention of creating a community of people in a similar situation so that we could compare notes, and do sometimes also find myself perplexed when someone pops in to talk about their much stronger stats.</p>
<p>My comment did not apply to anyone on this thread, by the way. If someone post a comment or state an opinion, and a CCier reply with something like: “Are you stupid?”, or the like, I am sure at about 99.999% that this individual is looking to pick a fight, and does it with everyone.</p>
<p>P.S. I think Adam Lambert is great, and as we all know, it’s not always the AI winner that makes it big.</p>
<p>ready: the real interesting human nature question is why, oh why, would someone want to join us on the 3.0-3.3 thread when it’s obvious that their child is at a completely different level…it’s like us asking for chances on the HYPSM threads…makes no sense…but whatever…</p>
<p>Although I haven’t seen the 3.0-3.3 thread, I can see why some people with high stat kids might post there. For one, parents may be trying to be helpful - they or their kids may have researched some of these schools for their safeties, or have information about them in some other context. Also - sometimes these parents have other children, and they are interested in learning more about schools that may not have been on their radar before. However, if someone just keeps talking about their own high achieving kid and it’s totally out of context to the conversation, that is pretty insensitive. </p>
<p>I think it can actually be a good idea in some cases to change some pertinent information here and there(sex and ages of children, hometown, SAT scores within a range of points )in order to maintain privacy and with awareness that there are people who may be able to identify you IRL, admissions officers who may be reading etc. Personally, I have zero issue with that kind of thing and think it’s a good idea in some situations. Just so long as you are aware that sometimes this may affect the kind of advice you receive (financial aid, recommendations for schools, chances due to geographic location etc. ).</p>
<p>soozie, OMG! I still think of mini as a Mom. Mini really is a Dad? Apparently he connects with the motherly side of us all. How did you even get to meet him? If this really is anonymous, how does that work?</p>
<p>RTR, your question has been answered by others; I just wanted to address this from your OP:</p>
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<p>My kid would never post at CC, but he had near perfect SAT scores as a sophomore and was looking at colleges (he’s going early). Maybe it’s not the usual track, but there are kids out there that may very well post as in your example who aren’t lying!</p>
<p>I’ve wondered about lying on CC, too. Usually it’s the kids, though, not the parents, at least when I’ve sensed something amiss and bothered to check.</p>
<p>Speaking for myself, I occasionally change a minor detail just to preserve anonymity, but nothing as fundamental as my kid’s grades, test scores, etc. That really would be pointless.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I have also posted questions with hypothetical details about a hypothetical kid, and then asked a question just out of curiosity. Someone reading those posts could get the impression that I was posted conflicting information, when in fact the information was just made up for the sake of argument. But I don’t think that’s what the OP is referring to.</p>
<p>I guess more concerning is the lying elsewhere. I noticed this thread: </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/762137-do-colleges-require-proof-extracurricular-activities.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/762137-do-colleges-require-proof-extracurricular-activities.html</a></p>
<p>Some fairly active discussion. Do you think as a whole people have just become more inclined to stretch the truth? I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what mantori.suzuki and probably many others do to preserve their anonymity. I’ve no doubt that people who live in my area could probably identify me and my kids- and I’m okay with that because I’m truthful.</p>
<p>I confess. I do go and read other posts BUT only if the thread starts to NOT make sense. There have been some threads where a poster has actually contradicted themselves within that one thread. </p>
<p>Another question…why do some posters post a question over and over and over on the same and different threads? I guess on different threads, it’s just to get different perspectives…I guess. BUT there have been times when the OP gets a multitude of responses that clearly are not what they expected…so they post the same question over and over.</p>
<p>Sometimes I post the same question again, either a couple of weeks later, or on another thread. In my case, it’s always because I didn’t get any responses and I figure maybe the right person that can help didn’t see it. (It’s sort of like when you list something on ebay and get no bids, then relist it and all of a sudden get twenty!)</p>