<p>The more green squares you have the likelier college adcoms love your essays, I mean your posts. And you know what they like. Is that about right?</p>
<p>Not really. For the green squares anybody and everybody can vote to “like” your posts. For your admissions essays only a small committee gets to vote on them. Your fellow applicants do not get even see your essays, much less vote on them. </p>
<p>The analogy would be better if if the green squares were awarded only by a vote of say the CC mods or site administrators.</p>
<p>COUREUR, I pushed you over! How is your DD?</p>
<p>I use my iPad more than my laptop. I’ve tried hovering over the green squares and nothing happens! Does that mean iPad users can’t give anyone a rep?</p>
<p>You have to click on the scale thingy to the right of the CC symbol. But several times while I was in the middle of writing a comment, the rep window disappeared and so now I have no idea if I succeeded in giving points or not.</p>
<p>I added to all of the above posters just to see how much “green” one can spread. I wasn’t blocked. Silly fun.</p>
<p>Thanks! I’ll give you some back!</p>
<p>It is a little harder on the iPad, but I love my iPad. So, even if I have to hit the scales several times to write a comment, I do. Be persistent. Unless you get a message back about adding to someone’s rep, it means it didn’t register.</p>
<p>GFG v Bookworm, who will get the first light green square?</p>
<p>I’ve hit you both tonight</p>
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<p>If you click on the scale again, the box should reappear. Filling the box doesn’t complete the rep, you need to click on the accept button; afterward, if successful, you’ll get a dialog box with the usual good-luck message.</p>
<p>I’m THIS close to the next level! </p>
<p>Spent some time giving rep to lowly one-squarers. :)</p>
<p>Why does this remind me of being the last one picked in gym class?</p>
<p>I got some rep clicks that have blue-ish purple squares… I think they are from new posters who don’t have enough experience to give rep points or something. So I get the box in my list of rep items, but no new points. 
That is what I get to replying to Chances threads, I guess.</p>
<p>Griffen. Please post something so I can share with you. I remember you from Carleton, right?</p>
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<p>I had parents in mind and thought they were almost as good as or even better than adcomes. On a few threads however they are getting squares for fun, perhaps fun is part of a holistic evaluation.</p>
<p>Soph14’sMom, because it is a lot like that. These things always turn into popularity contests. I was disappointed when they added a ‘rate your fellow member’ feature, so I am treating it like the joke that it is.</p>