The only thing Reddit does better than CC is the nested threads. I really dislike how a reply to a post in CC goes down to the bottom of the page.
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So true…
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Is that a feature or a bug?
No comment. 
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CC is doing ALOT! right. For the life of me I can not adequately navigate reddit A2C. It gives me a headache! Love the format here. Very well laid out and clear 
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I’m back on CC (as of about a week ago) after nearly a year off, after kid #2 got into college and now kid #3 is nearing the end of junior year of high school. In the meantime I’m on reddit multiple times a day and the way reddit is structured I can (and did) join A2C a while back and can see the top threads from there on my home page, glance at the title, and decide if I feel like engaging or (mostly) not.
I agree with pretty much everything that’s been said in this thread already about how A2C is much more student-dominated than here. One thing that I find a negative on CC is how long threads get… there are threads on here that were already too long a year ago for me to ever catch up on (if you want to read from the beginning) and are still going. I know you can just jump in at the end but I don’t want to repeat things that 20 people have said already. On the flip side, it’s easier here I think to keep a conversation going since threads fall off of the top page there quickly and become more difficult to find.
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I agree! And I have to say, I see very few kids getting into ‘all or none’…I am sure we could all share our lists of this kid got into Penn but not a single UC, this kid got into Northwestern but not Duke, etc (I am talking about kids with no hooks).
There’s actually a spinoff subreddit of A2C called r/collegeresults. Students often post their results along with their stats and ECs.
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Holy cow, thank goodness my kids have never seen this! I just zoomed over there and read the post by “Hookless but Stereotypical PoliSci/STEM Asian Applicant Gets into Harvard along with other good schools”. I believe students are capable of the grades and rigor the poster states, but I don’t even know what to say about those EC’s except …I cannot believe that one human is capable of all that, let alone a 17 yo, due to their only being 24 hours in a day. Anyone can post whatever college results they want on reddit:).
They can on CC as well. 
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