<p>A student asked that question of parents on the College Class of 2014 thread, and I thought it was a good one!</p>
<p>I "met" a frequent poster on CC on a running website. When she learned that my son was looking at colleges, she gave me some great advice and then recommended I check out CC. I'm so glad she did!</p>
<p>Google. I was doing a search on kids and motivation in school and CC was one of the results. I felt like I hit the jackpot of college info.</p>
<p>A friend who was the parent of a senior started telling moms of younger students that she wished she knew that college research didn’t start the spring of junior year. She recommended lurking on CC starting in the beginning of your student’s high school years. Most of my other friends laughed at the time, but I am always amazed by what a great resource this is.</p>
<p>A parent of a student from another hs in our area tolds me about it. Their GCs give lots of helpful tips etc to the kids/parents…our hs GCs…not so much</p>
<p>I joined after Google redirected me here for something I was searching for.</p>
<p>However, I first found at about it in a funnier way. I was doing searches for college admissions related topics, and this popped up: [Hopeless</a> To Harvard - The Ultimate Ivy League Admissions Guide](<a href=“http://www.hopelesstoharvard.com/ivy-league-admissions-guide/]Hopeless”>http://www.hopelesstoharvard.com/ivy-league-admissions-guide/)</p>
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<p>If anyone’s interested, it’s a scam book. Oh, and:</p>
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<p>I think I did a google search on something for the computer science program at UCLA and landed in the ‘flopsy’ thread on the CC UCLA forum which is an enduring thread originally done by ‘flopsy’ a CS student there. Flopsy was very helpful - not just to me but to countless other posters. Flopsy’s graduated and moved on but I think the thread is being continued by other engineering students.</p>
<p>Came upon CC while trying to figure out what the NMSF cut off was for my state…googled the subject. CC came up near the top of the searches.</p>
<p>I was looking for mean stats of accepted students at a particular school …and Google brought me here.</p>
<p>Hard print medium. As I recall, CC was mentioned within an article in Newsweek magazine, so I reached over to computer to google it. Was in midst of a last-minute search for Child #3 who suddenly announced he’d be graduating a year early. Most helpful resource, ever.</p>
<p>paying3tuitions: just wondering, to what schools are your tuitions being paid?</p>
<p>I found cc when I was googling for summer musical theatre programs for my D who was a highschool freshman at the time. I am so thankful I found cc when I did because I received so much good advice over the years before my D began auditioning for college musical theatre programs.</p>
<p>This is nice for CC admin to know. I suppose that companies pay Google for the privilege of showing up on page one of the search? If so, money well spent.</p>
<p>I used to be an active poster on a Disney vacation planning forum. There was a thread over there in its “cafe” where a bunch of parents were lamenting college costs and debt and SATs and yada yada. </p>
<p>Somebody said College Confidential was a good place to learn about those things. But, he gave this warning: “Take what you read over there with a grain of salt. The place is full of a bunch of neurotic perfetionists who aren’t happy with anything outside the Ivy League.” 
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<p>@liv4physicz: Amherst, Oberlin, Chapman U/Dodge College of Film & Media Arts, but with overlaps and need-based scholarships. Also note my Screenname was coined in 2006 so we’re now past the worst of it.</p>
<p>^^Google search for college related questions^^then when mentionned to sons they said oh yay this one is for crazies :p</p>
<p>I was googling something, trying to figure out when college acceptance letters or emails would come out. Clearly, I found the site too late for my oldest. But, I lurked around while we waited to find out where she was accepted, and then I looked around specifically, once she was accepted, and none of what I found out factored AT ALL into how she finally chose a college, but by then, it was too late and I was “hooked.” Though I do put up valiant attempts every couple of months to quit this place. I always end up wandering back. :eek:</p>
<p>My wife told me about it. She kept talking about the interesting threads.</p>
<p>D’s Sophmore apartment and semester where wiped out by Katrina. Like many kids she wanted to get back on track immediately, so I had one week to accomplish what we had a year to do before Freshman year. Find a school. Strangely enough, everything worked out fine.</p>
<p>i found it googling math/science schools when my son was thinking about going to one for high school…stayed all through the college process…and still here at end of 1st year. i’ll probably still be here through grad/med school.</p>
<p>Other parents on a bar/bat mitzvah forum started mentioning it. Mostly in horror. 
I started lurking just before D1 started high school, so we’ve been able to reap the full benefits.</p>