<p>P.S. Owlice…just to make you feel better, the poster in question posted that he (or she) was a sophomore in one thread who had just taken the PSATs and scored in the 1700s, and then two months later they were a senior with near perfect scores.</p>
<p>^^^ Maybe this person had a friend over who wanted to ask a question and posted under her screenname.</p>
<p>Reasons for lying on CC:</p>
<p>1) Some people lie all the time IRL, so why would they be any when different posting on CC? Why do they do this? I really don’t know.</p>
<p>2) Some think it is funny to yank people’s chains or fool people – they post something just to see what the responses might be. These people are not looking for advice, they are just screwing around. </p>
<p>3)They’ve invented a story, making up details so that their identity won’t be recognized, and they forget some of the details, or just aren’t very good, careful story crafters, so they end up contradicting themselves somewhere along the line.</p>
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<p>Actually, over the years, I have met many people from CC. But as far as mini goes…back in 2004, we both were on CC with daughters in that year’s admissions cycle and both of our daughters got into Smith and we were going to be attending the admitted student event and also at that event, there was a special luncheon for what was called Stride Scholars and my D and his D were two of these. When this came up on the forum, he (and also TheDad and another member who no longer posts here) went through PMs to exchange names and met up at the event. Mini’s D chose to attend Smith but my D ultimately chose Brown though liked Smith. </p>
<p>Since I have been here a long time, and so have many others, sometimes friendships continue off the forum and in emails and more personal information is shared. I may be in a member’s city or vice versa (well, I live in a tiny town) and we might meet up then or at a certain college if our kids are at the same one. Right now, I am also in an offshoot group of sorts that formed a private group on FB of those with students in college theater programs (mostly from the musical theater or drama majors forum on CC) and there we use our real names and share far greater specifics about our kids and happenings. I have recently met two other moms in NYC who came to attend a performance of my D’s. Another mom is going to be in my state this week and is meeting me for lunch in my town. Over the years, I have met quite a few members and there are others I wish I could meet too.</p>
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<p>Hoping for a different answer. They were told their chances weren’t so good for Sky High U. so they keep asking again hoping to get a response more to their liking.</p>
<p>On the flip side of lying, D1 had a friend at college who had briefly been a member of CC back when he was in high school. But he quit after he was vigorously accused of lying about how many APs he had taken - the idea being that nobody could possibly take that many. I don’t remember the number but it was in the teens. But he was telling the truth. He really had taken and passed that many APs. Nevertheless he was run out of town as a an accused liar.</p>
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<p>The part where he plays peanut gallery, launching missiles at democrats and republican policies alike, allowing him to maintain the snarky high ground is not exactly motherly.</p>
<p>^^^Um, crescent…this is not the Politics Forum. :)</p>
<p>mini has linked to his personal home page at some point. That’s how I “know” him. You don’t have to be anonymous here, just most people are.</p>
<p>I’ve found snarkiness in both sexes. I enjoy mini’s brand. :)</p>
<p>^^^I am happy to say I have also met mathmom!</p>
<p>Rodney, I don’t post as much as I used to though I’m trying to get back “in shape” as it were but I’ll answer questions where I can be helpful, regardless of whether my D fits the profile of the question or not. I have several particular interests in the context of CC: high-achieving non-HYPSM students, first-generation to college, and womens colleges to name three. I don’t believe I’ve posted on the 3.0 to 3.3 threads simply because in general I don’t know enough about the options…but if I had a valid nugget, I wouldn’t refrain from posting there.</p>
<p>TheDad…I don’t think the folks on the 3.0 thread mind others posting there to give advice and so on…but I think they are referring to parents of current applicants who do not fit that profile who are trying to discuss where their kids might apply and seem to think their child’s GPA or other academic stats are in that ballpark but they are not. That is why I wrote earlier in this thread that some of that is perspective and what one person thinks is a low academic profile and another thinks constitutes that. But I can understand that the folks with kids in the 3.0 range are a little annoyed when others with kids in a much higher range are discussing the options for their child when the thread was meant for a particular range of applicant.</p>
<p>I have had one IRL meeting with a cc connect (a wonderful person whose S was attending the same event at my D’s school) . Let’s just say she didn’t have any trouble picking me out from the crowd from various (truthful) physical and sartorial descriptions I’ve posted of myself from time to time. I don’t “blend”. ;)</p>
<p>I recently had a IRL meeting with another CC poster recently too. My son and I were heading to her city to visit the college there, and we arranged to meet for lunch. It was great! I felt like I was meeting up with an old friend, we’d been chatting on CC for a while and knew about each other and our families.</p>
<p>Funny thing, we both mentioned how we’d told our kids for years not to ever meet with someone they met over the internet!! haha! Oh Well, I guess it’s ok for a couple of moms!! :)</p>
<p>^My kids thought it was really funny when we stayed with two different families I knew only from the internet. Mind you I “knew” them better than I know posters here. I’d known their real names for ages, and I’d painted portraits of the kids in one family. But meeting in a public place, I’m not that worried about it.</p>
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<p>Mini is neither a Dad nor a Mom. Mini is a Hydra account as the account is shared by both parents.</p>
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<p>All you had to do was click through to Mini’s home page and you’d know it was a he. Anyway, “how does that work”? Well, as for Mini, we PM’ed over a question that I had and he graciously invited me to call him at home and I did and we had a pleasant and helpful chat. Easy as can be. I’d be delighted to meet many CC’ers in person if the opportunity arose.</p>
<p>BTW, crescent22, are you male or female? I’ve always thought of you as male.</p>
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My philosophy on this is that even if the OP is lying, somebody else who really has that problem, or a similar one, might get some help from the advice. And on the other side, when reading advice, I think of it as provoking thought as opposed to providing definitive answers.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061580163-post7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061580163-post7.html</a></p>
<p>Xiggi–
That post by “mini” is actually from his wife Ellen, who (if I remember correctly) was going through treatment for breast cancer at the time. Mini posted about it from time to time, and Ellen spoke to us occasionally as well, to let us know how she was doing.</p>
<p>My observation is as dmd’s regarding mini’s posts. I believe most of the posts under mini are by the husband. At one time, his wife posted under his account when she was ill and people asked about her but she made it very clear in the posts that it was her posting under her husband’s account. The other posts, I believe, have been by mini himself and if you read enough of them, they sound like one person indeed. :D</p>