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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like reading “real talk”. If I wanted to be told my kid with a 1500 and a 3.9 and lots of AP classes who is nice but nothing special is definitely getting into Harvard, I’d ask my parents, who think he’s getting into Harvard and Yale.

But because of this forum, I know my kid is a dime of dozen (well, one of 100,000), and will do great at UMD or Michigan State or wherever he ends up.

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Same here. My DH thought our 4.2 1440 DD could get in anywhere. Being on here has helped me show him he's being unrealistic. It's also brings us down to earth when kids with higher stats have gotten rejected from some of the same places DD has.

I did quit the forum for a while in the Fall. I posted something that led to 18 pages of vitriol, 95% of which was people misreading what I wrote or making wrong assumptions, which seems to be the MO of most DCUM posters. [/quote]

I can never tell if it is willful misinformation, abysmal reading comprehension, or possibly both. I posted something - also back in the fall - and I was torched for five pages until someone finally said "wait a minute, that is not at all what the PP wrote." Then another few pages of people arguing with this PP as they clung to their misreading of my post.

It is what it is.[/quote]

This showed up in recent topics so I read it.  Though it didn’t happen in the college forum, I had an issue like this and the person was so nasty.  Basically, I’m a teacher, but I didn’t work last year.  I had a friend give birth and she felt that qualified her for an early vaccine.  Then, she started pressuring me about cutting the line because I could say that I’m a teacher.  I felt that wasn’t ethical since it wasn’t true at the time.  This person was so pissed about how I’m not the same as my friend, wasn’t a teacher right now, didn’t deserve to cut the line, and shouldn’t be picking on a new mom.  It was really off-putting that this poster could be so angry about someone he/she didn’t know AND couldn’t be bothered to even comprehend the situation.[/quote]

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