This may cause a lot of confusion for edge cases. For example, Northeastern is both not the class of 2025 due to the 5-year co-op program many do, and also has no official release date (the “By April 1st” date is always released before).
Maybe this is more my specific case, but I think the pinning system would be far better to indicate the active threads.
Another consideration is that I was not planning to make the official RD thread for my forum until next week to avoid too much release date speculation and anxiety.
With that in mind, I would suggest the following guidelines instead of what’s proposed above:
- Pin all official threads to their respective forums
- Lead with full school name (using common abbreviations, like SLO, only when it would be extremely lengthy or unrecognizable)
- Decision type next (EA, RD, SCEA, etc) using the abbreviation, ommited if all in one
- Year can be either 2021 or 2025 to consider cases of non-4 year schools like Northeastern, Drexel, Waterloo, etc
- Decision dates included in the first post, not in the title. Too many schools fall outside of having a set date that it’s nearly an edge case to have one
So for the above + Northeastern’s case:
University of Florida: Class of 2025 Decisions
Cal Poly SLO: Class of 2025 Decisions
University of Michigan EA: Class of 2025 Decisions
UC Irvine: Class of 2025 Decisions
University of Connecticut: Class of 2025 Decisions
University of Washington: Class of 2025 Decisions
Northeastern University RD: 2021 Decisions
Happy to discuss further but I think that title format is way too long as is and will break a lot of cases.