CC discussed in today's Chronicle of Higher Education

Parents Forum
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<p>I want to be singled out as helpful or crazy. Doesn’t matter which one …</p>

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<p>Check the featured threads on the first page. It was featured yesterday:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/1499093-cc-profiled-chronicle-higher-ed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/1499093-cc-profiled-chronicle-higher-ed.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For the record, I called the article a waste of time and a shameful use of the keyboard.</p>

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<p>I think the counselors are put off by the occasional posts by CC members that state how uninformed and/or useless their counselor is.</p>

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<p>They don’t like the truth?</p>

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I couldn’t go full blown ratchet. :rolleyes:</p>

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They can’t HANDLE the truth!</p>

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<p>If it wasn’t for CC I would have not looked further than our state school which evenin our state does not have a good rep. Thanks to CC I found out about Colleges That Change Lives, that there are a lot of schools for B students, and what merit aide is. Some of us don’t have GCs and while not perfect CC is helpful. So thank you CC.</p>

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<p>The guidance department at our HS had the first college prep seminar Oct Sr year, to ready students on how to fill in the common app and what they needed to send transcripts. That was the first time students even heard to ask for teacher recs or do college visits. </p>

<p>Since the GCs didn’t provide any info for 10th and 11th graders, they can’t really complain about a forum that did.</p>

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<p>"… they can’t really complain about a forum that did."</p>

<p>And yet …</p>

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<p>But on to more important things.</p>

<p>“If it wasn’t for CC” … I wouldn’t know that “Ivy Envy” has a meaning beyond Botany.</p>

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<p>Is Eric Hoover the son of Pizzagirl?</p>

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<p>I want to know if I can measure my prestigiousity by the number of members in the article that I’ve shared a thread with?</p>

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<p>Re Niquii77 - I ADMIT IT.</p>

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<p>@Lakemom- very sad to hear about such poor advising- in the end, parents need to understand the process in order to become their children’s advocates in this process.</p>

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<p>I can envision a new movie about college admissions, where in the final scene, a prolific CC Poster turns a corner into a darkened blind alley…only to find a mob of college counselors lying in wait with brass knuckles and Black Jacks.</p>