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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only see super elite kids posting on CC. Super elite with crushing inferiority complexes.

The parent forum is better. There's a thread for B+ kids that's very useful.[/quote]

You must only be focusing on a tiny slice of the forum.  There are all levels of students/parents posting in the College Admissions and College Search and Selection boards, and in the threads for particular colleges.  The parent forum threads you mention are very helpful too.  Here's one: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1871275-parents-of-the-hs-class-of-2017-3-0-to-3-4-gpa.html[/quote]

No, I've been all around CC. Anywhere a kid starts with the chance me nonsense, disregard. That's why the Parent Forum is pretty good and the thread you posted is the same one I referenced, the B+/3.0-3.4 GPA. Kids are bored by the parent talk so they take their Chance Mes elsewhere. Otherwise you've got to tune out the perfect stats. Also know that in the individual university forums, you'll rarely hear about who DIDN'T get in. So as with everything college-related, it must be taken with many grains of salt.[/quote]

All the threads for individual colleges I've seen that are started for RD, ED etc. applicants include lots of posts from the kids who didn't get in.  Some have good stats, and some not so much.  Usually the kids bond over the weeks or months between application and decisions, and many are refreshingly honest about the likely reasons they didn't get accepted.  If you are only looking at the threads for top 20 or so schools, there will, of course, be more high stats kids posting.
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This. OP, scroll past the "chance me" threads, which are uninformed high schoolers opining on whether other high schoolers, some of whom are probably trolling with made-up intimidating stats, will get in.

Instead, look at the results threads to see actual data. As PP says, lots of rejected applicants post their results and sometimes their thoughts on why they were rejected.[/quote]

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