I guess I’m in the minority but I never thought of this community as ‘unwelcoming’. And I don’t begrudge anyone trying to decide between Princeton and Pomona or Duke and Penn. Kudos to them. If we roll our collective eyes at those those types of threads, well isn’t that ‘unwelcoming’ too? That’s just another type of ax to grind. The kind where we project, that because a poster has some excellent options, that they must be elitist or trying to flaunt their successes. Not always true.