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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New to this.

I’ve seen college confidential and reddits applying to College forum.

What do you read each for, and what else do you read that’s informative? And informative about what?

Thanks.[/quote]

My family is now past the college application stage, and I’m not sure if Niche still works this way. But, when my son was still applying, not just studying, the free Niche signup account was very helpful. My son’s school didn’t have any useful admissions data, and Niche had wonderful scattergrams broken down by intended major.

I also thought that everything else in all of the Niche entries was useful and interesting. Example: Each entry includes a list of peer schools. If you dig deep, you can find average professor pay, and how many graduates end up with each major.

My son handled almost everything about the application process himself, but it was comforting to see in the scattergrams that him choosing an impractical major (history) gave him an a practical admissions boost.

I also think that the Reddit admissions results subreddit is useful, because it can give you a sense of who really gets into various schools, how much aid people get, and what good activities and awards look like

But I think the real point of forums like these is that they’re like watching college basketball for people with no interest in basketball. I can enter a small Eden where the big problem is people being too mean to colleges I’ve never actually seen, and one hot controversy is whether my alma mater belongs in tiers 2, 3 or 4, as opposed to a world where my country might invade Greenland.

So, the truth is that a lot of what’s posted in a forum like this is about the posters’ inner demons and has nothing to do with getting into or staying in college. [/quote]

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