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Anonymous wrote:Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

These are the kind of schools parents want to know about. And the USNWR top 50 of course.

No one en masse cares about a meh college in Alabama.

Alabama and Auburn each received more applications last fall than any of the bolded schools, including Brown.

From 1200 SAT kids. Applications from 1500 SAT kids are what matter.

Half the students who get into Brown and Wesleyan don't even submit their SAT, and four out of five don't submit their ACT. At least Alabama and Auburn are test-preferred.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

These are the kind of schools parents want to know about. And the USNWR top 50 of course.

No one en masse cares about a meh college in Alabama.

Alabama and Auburn each received more applications last fall than any of the bolded schools, including Brown.

From 1200 SAT kids. Applications from 1500 SAT kids are what matter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

These are the kind of schools parents want to know about. And the USNWR top 50 of course.

No one en masse cares about a meh college in Alabama.

Alabama and Auburn each received more applications last fall than any of the bolded schools, including Brown.

There are millions of average kids out there. They have to go somewhere.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

These are the kind of schools parents want to know about. And the USNWR top 50 of course.

No one en masse cares about a meh college in Alabama.

Alabama and Auburn each received more applications last fall than any of the bolded schools, including Brown.

Anonymous wrote:Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

These are the kind of schools parents want to know about. And the USNWR top 50 of course.

No one en masse cares about a meh college in Alabama.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the issue is kids on the forum. It’s adults with no actual connection to the current application cycle and just some axe to grind.

This subforum - college - is helpful across the board across the nation.....

Until the resident idiot chines in with no useful facts…….

Which is pretty much everybody.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the issue is kids on the forum. It’s adults with no actual connection to the current application cycle and just some axe to grind.

This subforum - college - is helpful across the board across the nation.....

Until the resident idiot chines in with no useful facts…….

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the issue is kids on the forum. It’s adults with no actual connection to the current application cycle and just some axe to grind.

This subforum - college - is helpful across the board across the nation.....

Anonymous wrote:This forum is mostly adults. It is most useful if you are living in the DC area. If you aren't from here, I don't really know why it would be helpful.

Why’s that? What content on the college board is only relevant to DMV families? I see an occasional thread that is geographic-specific but most are not. And, btw, lots of people from outside the region are active users, including myself. Used to live in DC but moved.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the issue is kids on the forum. It’s adults with no actual connection to the current application cycle and just some axe to grind.

There is an obvious increase of kids who are trolling.

Anonymous wrote:Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

Nah, flagship at your flyover state will do.

Some of us have lived & studied at colleges all over the country & maybe a foreign country (2 foreign countries in my case). It’s painful to see people asking for guidance for college selection & 80% of the recommended schools are the same handful of colleges in the northeast that don’t fit & which the OPs probably already know about.

Like if a kid has a 28 ACT & wants to study finance at a large warm-weather public with rah-rah spirit. The recommendations will be like Colby, Brown, Wesleyan, & Swarthmore.

I don’t think the issue is kids on the forum. It’s adults with no actual connection to the current application cycle and just some axe to grind.

This forum is mostly adults. It is most useful if you are living in the DC area. If you aren't from here, I don't really know why it would be helpful.

I'm pretty sure kids are over at discord.