<p>How would you describe CC (as succinctly as possible) to someone completely unfamiliar with the site?</p>
<p>I’d probably be like “you don’t need to know”. I’d be sooo so easy to identify.</p>
<p>An addictive site that’s suppose to be about colleges and is bad for your self confidence.
Don’t check out the “what are my chances” first…! xD</p>
<p>The forum where overachievers go, where people will do anything to get into Top 15, where people self-study APs, brag about their acceptances/rejections, and complain of getting 790.</p>
<p>Example:
That dude’s going to self-study AP Physics C, AP Chemistry, AP Microeconomics, and is going to retake his 790 on the SAT II Chemistry. He must have gone to Collegeconfidential!</p>
<p>[Urban</a> Dictionary: collegeconfidential](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=collegeconfidential]Urban”>Urban Dictionary: College Confidential)</p>
<p>^I love that definition!!</p>
<p>lol, yeah, the urbandictionary definition did inspire this thread</p>
<p>closed captioning</p>
<p>Pyromaniacs lusting after the flames that consume humanity.
Right or wrong? No. We destroy for destruction’s sake.
Strauss warned that this accommodating culture would become stagnant.
He feared that materialism would leave philosophy barren.
This apathy toward transcendent truth would breed nihilism.
Welcome to nihilism made manifest in Western Civilization.
Strauss described nihilism as strong or weak.
Strong were the Nazis, who worshiped might and power to destroy.
Weak are the hollow McMansions, strip malls, emo kids, and most of all - you.
Little did he realize weak nihilism would fester in the tubes.
Strong nihilism has emerged in resentment of a superfluous society.
Tycho’s dickwad corollary would go beyond net flaming.
To fear us is to fear everything. To not fear us is suicide.
CC has achieved a persona.
Anthropologists would call it a “death cult”.
We have subjugated our individuality for our thirst for hatred.
CC moves as a force of nature. Our thirst grows.
You will never know when we are watching. We have shattered lives.
We are always close to you. We are in each stranger’s face.
We are the itch that humanity will scratch into an infected, pus filled open sore.
TL;DR
We are CollegeConfidential.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.</p>
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Me too. Esp geographically, since I didn’t exactly hide the fact that I live in a particular country of 4 million people. I’d just tell them to stay in the chances thread haha.</p>
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<p>Did you make this up? O_o</p>
<p>Where self-esteem goes to die.</p>
<p>Either that ^, or “Don’t bother”</p>
<p>Umm, some website… Are you sure you want to kn-never mind, pretend I didn’t say that. <em>quickly changes the subject</em></p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>Some forum where you might meet your college classmates</p>
<p>Funstuff, get that copypasta out of here.</p>
<p>You could show them this clip from the 1960 movie, “College Confidential”:
[College</a> Confidential – (Movie Clip) Principles Of Sociology](<a href=“http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=308661]College”>http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=308661)</p>
<p>It’s an esoteric club for those seeking encyclopedic knowledge about college admissions; sort of like the Wikipedia of USNWR. The club known as College Confidential (CC to members) then divides itself into sub-portions like HSL, SAT Prep, and Parent’s Forum (scary!). Only the top students will discover this club, but the weak will be scared off by the ‘What Are My Chances?’ thread. The best will stay and thrive (after crying about 2150 SAT score), and the best of the best will eventually come to HSL.</p>
<p>^ haha agreed.</p>
<p>^^agree completely</p>