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OP, you can't waltz in here and use words like "extremely impressive" when you're talking about schools. It's just not done and makes you look stupid. People have strong feelings about certain schools and colleges, and if you wish point out praiseworthy achievements, you've got to be convincingly factual and more specific. What kind of academic are you that you can't make that effort to look objective? The words you use are way too subjective - you look like the moronic realtors on the Real Estate forum that post about their listings in first-degree, glowing terms, while pretending to be buyers.

Again, you need numbers and match-school comparisons in order to conclude what you did. Otherwise it's just hot air and people are going to tear you apart.
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OP here.  You're right.  How DARE I congratulate a bunch of 18-year olds on getting into "great" schools after a bunch of people tried to tear down their achievements. As an academic, I should know that I am not allowed to be "impressed" or use any subjective qualifiers when describing anything.  I'll make sure I don't tell my kids they did a "great job" making dinner unless I compare it to a Michelin star restaurant or without sampling other kids' cooking first.  My daughter is in a play next week and I'll hold back on any comments about her performance until I go to other high schools to see how good she is relative to other teenagers...I wouldn't want my praise to look "stupid."

I'm not sure why you are triggered so easily but you might want to reread the things you write before you post.

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Nope. I've been here a long time, and I'm just giving you a friendly warning: don't look like a troll. People here are educated (don't advertise you're an "academic", poor naive one, most of us have terminal degrees and are very knowledgeable about education) and operate on a hair-trigger, so you're going to get blasted if you write posts like this one again.

Of course, if you're looking for the fight, go ahead :-)

But if you want a reasoned discussion, I'm telling you there are better ways to get one.

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to be fair, your posts just make you look like an asshole.[/quote]

+1000 . A person who commends kids on getting into "impressive" colleges--however they define "impressive"--is not a troll.  Someone who goes apeshit and demands metrics to justify said praise?  That's a troll (and, to PP's point, an asshole). [/quote]

DP. If you are going to say something is impressive and provide no proof, someone is going to ask for how you define impressive. [/quote]

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