<p>I’ll Give it a shot</p>
<p>Who ever has the most APs win</p>
<p>Especially post # 49 written by benjones from MIT</p>
<p>Buying a lottery ticket: A lesson from CC</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/48099-buying-lottery-ticket-lesson-cc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/48099-buying-lottery-ticket-lesson-cc.html</a></p>
<p>**If you knew then what you know now… **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/64383-if-you-knew-then-what-you-know-now.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/64383-if-you-knew-then-what-you-know-now.html</a></p>
<p>the story of Andi’s son 1 year later</p>
<p>No Acceptances: One Kid’s Story - A year later… </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/192395-no-acceptances-one-kids-story-year-later.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/192395-no-acceptances-one-kids-story-year-later.html</a></p>
<p>Curmudgeon- King of the Merit Aid search</p>
<p>Your kid takes the top scholarship instead of the top school. What’s next?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/313156-your-kid-takes-top-scholarship-instead-top-school-whats-next.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/313156-your-kid-takes-top-scholarship-instead-top-school-whats-next.html</a></p>
<p>**Swallows to Capistrano ( Financial Aid Myths and Realities )
**</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/492777-swallows-capistrano-financial-aid-myths-realities.html?highlight=favorite+threads[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/492777-swallows-capistrano-financial-aid-myths-realities.html?highlight=favorite+threads</a></p>
<p>dstartk - who always knows how to get things started</p>
<p>**Did anyone’s child choose a free ride over a “more prestigious” school? **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/21907-did-anyones-child-choose-free-ride-over-more-prestigious-school.html?highlight=favorite+threads[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/21907-did-anyones-child-choose-free-ride-over-more-prestigious-school.html?highlight=favorite+threads</a></p>
<p>**HOOKOLOGY 101: special, college-applicant qualities as admissions advantages **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/144779-hookology-101-special-college-applicant-qualities-admissions-advantages.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/144779-hookology-101-special-college-applicant-qualities-admissions-advantages.html</a></p>
<p>**My Dinner With An Admissions Officer **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/118616-my-dinner-admissions-officer.html?highlight=dinner[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/118616-my-dinner-admissions-officer.html?highlight=dinner</a></p>
<p>Some of the real grat pearls of wisdom are in the Writing awards:</p>
<p>Announcing the CollegeConfidential Writing Awards for 2004-2005</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/56155-announcing-collegeconfidential-writing-awards-2004-2005-a.html?highlight=writing+awards[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/56155-announcing-collegeconfidential-writing-awards-2004-2005-a.html?highlight=writing+awards</a></p>
<p>**2007 College Confidential Writing Awards **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/398072-2007-college-confidential-writing-awards.html?highlight=writing+awards[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/398072-2007-college-confidential-writing-awards.html?highlight=writing+awards</a></p>
<p>And because some days we just want to have a whole lotta fun</p>
<p>**A Meta-thread to save us all time **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/501191-meta-thread-save-us-all-time.html?highlight=meta+thread[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/501191-meta-thread-save-us-all-time.html?highlight=meta+thread</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/97255-whoever-has-most-aps-wins.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/97255-whoever-has-most-aps-wins.html</a> </p>
<p>**101 Things I Wish I’d Known Before the College Search
**</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/466871-101-things-i-wish-id-known-before-college-search.html?highlight=favorite+threads[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/466871-101-things-i-wish-id-known-before-college-search.html?highlight=favorite+threads</a></p>
<p>**Things One Believes After a Week on CC
**</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/264185-things-one-believes-after-week-cc.html?highlight=favorite+threads[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/264185-things-one-believes-after-week-cc.html?highlight=favorite+threads</a></p>
<p>Because there is really nothing new under the sun…</p>
<p>**Revolving Thread Topics- linking the old with the new… **</p>
<p>A list of FYI threads</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/400041-revolving-thread-topics-linking-old-new.html?highlight=favorite+threads[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/400041-revolving-thread-topics-linking-old-new.html?highlight=favorite+threads</a></p>
<p>the threads that probably brought us most together as a community was the ones for latetoschool</p>
<p>**Support for LateToSchool **</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/397947-support-latetoschool.html?highlight=latetoschool[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/397947-support-latetoschool.html?highlight=latetoschool</a></p>