Why do some add nonresponsive bragging info when answering a question

[Anonymous]

You new here OP?

[Anonymous]

Invariably posters who mention scores or gpas *without* providing an actual number get asked for the number anyway. Might as well mention it to start with. It pretty true for most posts here actually.

OP: Did your kid have a job between 11th and 12th?
P1: Yes
P2 and/or OP: What job, P1?
P1: An internship at a company in the field they are interested in.
P-whatever and/or OP: Was it a paid internship, P1?

P1 should have just said “Yes, my kid has a paid internship at a company in the field they are interested in” in the first place, even though the OP of this thread apparently would see that as bragging extra info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Invariably posters who mention scores or gpas *without* providing an actual number get asked for the number anyway. Might as well mention it to start with. It pretty true for most posts here actually.

OP: Did your kid have a job between 11th and 12th?
P1: Yes
P2 and/or OP: What job, P1?
P1: An internship at a company in the field they are interested in.
P-whatever and/or OP: Was it a paid internship, P1?

P1 should have just said “Yes, my kid has a paid internship at a company in the field they are interested in” in the first place, even though the OP of this thread apparently would see that as bragging extra info.

Yes! The reply that OP considers "bragging" is so much more informative and potentially helpful. Why the heck would anyone reply "yes" to Did your kid have a summer job? It is implied that more details are requested.

Even for the first SAT question, giving the score is informative because it gives people an idea of what scores kids are ultimately happy with, and how many tries it took to get to that point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invariably posters who mention scores or gpas *without* providing an actual number get asked for the number anyway. Might as well mention it to start with. It pretty true for most posts here actually.

OP: Did your kid have a job between 11th and 12th?
P1: Yes
P2 and/or OP: What job, P1?
P1: An internship at a company in the field they are interested in.
P-whatever and/or OP: Was it a paid internship, P1?

P1 should have just said “Yes, my kid has a paid internship at a company in the field they are interested in” in the first place, even though the OP of this thread apparently would see that as bragging extra info.

Yes! The reply that OP considers "bragging" is so much more informative and potentially helpful. Why the heck would anyone reply "yes" to Did your kid have a summer job? It is implied that more details are requested.

Even for the first SAT question, giving the score is informative because it gives people an idea of what scores kids are ultimately happy with, and how many tries it took to get to that point.

How is that helpful with the SAT? If someone said, my kid took it once and got a 1470, how does that help?

- do you know what schools the kid applied to, got into, got rejected from?

- do you know if the kid went TO?

- do you know if the kid's SAT had any impact on acceptance/rejection?

- do you know if the kid had a hook?

- do you know if the score is high, avg or low for the kid's school/area?

- do you know if the kid mentioned something else in the app to explain something related to the score?

No...you literally get no useful information from this question and those answers. That's different than:

What is the lowest SAT score you know of from a kid admitted to ABC college and what were the other stats?

That is helpful but a different question. Simply stating the score is not helpful at all in the context of what someone else could glean from that, when simply asked something like how many times did your kid take the SAT?

[Anonymous]

Is it your first day here, OP? How cute!

[Anonymous]

The point is to get information, I would assume. So if someone indeed did great and puts that info here, it should be helpful to the OP , not to be seen as bragging.

Beaides who do we know here??
Say if my kid got 100% or 10 % no one knows who my kid is so what does it matter?

[Anonymous]

While extraneous info people are annoying, the worst is the ANONYMOUS posters specifying that they can’t give details bc it’s too identifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invariably posters who mention scores or gpas *without* providing an actual number get asked for the number anyway. Might as well mention it to start with. It pretty true for most posts here actually.

OP: Did your kid have a job between 11th and 12th?
P1: Yes
P2 and/or OP: What job, P1?
P1: An internship at a company in the field they are interested in.
P-whatever and/or OP: Was it a paid internship, P1?

P1 should have just said “Yes, my kid has a paid internship at a company in the field they are interested in” in the first place, even though the OP of this thread apparently would see that as bragging extra info.

Yes! The reply that OP considers "bragging" is so much more informative and potentially helpful. Why the heck would anyone reply "yes" to Did your kid have a summer job? It is implied that more details are requested.

Even for the first SAT question, giving the score is informative because it gives people an idea of what scores kids are ultimately happy with, and how many tries it took to get to that point.

How is this relevant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While extraneous info people are annoying, the worst is the ANONYMOUS posters specifying that they can’t give details bc it’s too identifying.

+100!

[Anonymous]

I don't think this is bragging. I think it's filling in info.

If you ask someone "How are you?" are you upset when they say "Fine. It's been a tough day because I worked late last night and the kids have two games today but I'll recover later!"

Or if you ask someone "Have you been to Turks and Caicos?" and they say "We have. We went in 2018 and stayed at X Hotel and loved it! They had amazing snorkeling and great restaurants. We liked this one the best."

I mean, that's human conversation, OP. Don't ask actual humans questions if you only want one word answers.

[Anonymous]

I like to brag about my kids, and I can’t really do it to anyone in my real life. So occasionally I brag here, but it depends on the thread and the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds more to me like they're giving you a bunch of context surrounding the information, and you're choosing to be insecure with it.

+1

Op, those examples that you gave are more context than brag.

Yep. Although I probably would agree with you if I got those responses, they’re normal responses and that’s why I don’t ask questions that will make me feel insecure. What info did you want when you asked?

Why aren’t you even interested if a kid had an internship if you don’t want to know what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Example:
How many times did your kids take the SAT?

Answer:
One and done: 1590

Example:
Did your kid have a summer job?

Answer: yes, a paid research internship with a congressman summer after 9th, capitol hill page after 10th, cancer research after 11th and this summer will be a TA for 3 college classes.

much more helpful / interesting / conversation starting than "once" and "yes"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is bragging. I think it's filling in info.

If you ask someone "How are you?" are you upset when they say "Fine. It's been a tough day because I worked late last night and the kids have two games today but I'll recover later!"

Or if you ask someone "Have you been to Turks and Caicos?" and they say "We have. We went in 2018 and stayed at X Hotel and loved it! They had amazing snorkeling and great restaurants. We liked this one the best."

I mean, that's human conversation, OP. Don't ask actual humans questions if you only want one word answers.

More like:

Are you taking a vacation this summer?

Yes! We flew first class to Europe and stayed in a villa with a fully staff.

That’s also a type of conversation…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example:
How many times did your kids take the SAT?

Answer:
One and done: 1590

Example:
Did your kid have a summer job?

Answer: yes, a paid research internship with a congressman summer after 9th, capitol hill page after 10th, cancer research after 11th and this summer will be a TA for 3 college classes.

much more helpful / interesting / conversation starting than "once" and "yes"

But…it isn’t helpful. Helpful would be as said above, “one time but kid only applied to TO schools.” That’s the context that helps versus a specific number.