CC did not change the approach to college in any way, we swam upstream against the prevailing current that students should attend their state flagship, if they are not attending a prestigious school in New England.
It does seem to be a rather lightweight project compared to others listed on the project site (I posted the link earlier). Question – did the person doing the project use CC during their own college search process?
You mean like Deflategate!? 
What CC did for my family and friends:
We were pre-NPC. I found out about CC from a rather snide remark on another similar, smaller board that is now defunct. At that board I had learned how wildly variable financial aid packages could be, and hoped to get even more financial advice here. As it turned out, Happykid had her own notions and goals, and while what I learned from CC helped me through the money issues (and allowed me to help a couple of her pals understand their financial aid packages), that is it. None of them were interested in spending one second here. They were happy with their own home-state public U options. So “changed your admission process” 0, but “kept one mom off the street and out of the bars” 21,783 and counting.
CC has helped me understand the financial aspects of the process. That was extremely helpful, the most helpful for our family. Daughter had already submitted all of her applications last fall by the time I became addicted to this website. Daughter might have ended up in Alabama had I found this site earlier, but in the end got a great merit scholarship anyway. I find many of the regular adult posters extremely helpful to others, particularly finding schools that are good fits and affordable. There are a lot of things I don’t like about the website, but I pick and choose what I read.
Now that college costs more than most houses (especially if you have a multiple kids) - being able to think through the value, the best college for your situation is more important than ever. Thank you CC and thank you parents and students for all the valuable and entertaining insight.
I cannot imagine doing a film on CC and not touching on the enormous bump Alabama must get from this site. Everyone knows about the Ivies before they come on CC. How many know about the Alabama scholarships before they come here? Same could probably be said for Oklahoma but that is more specific to NMSF.
Hi,
I really appreciate everyone’s comments and insights — so much of this is what I want the project to explore, and I’d love to include these perspectives in the documentary. Film, though, is a visual medium, and to include your thoughts I would need to discuss these topics with you in an interview, which could take place when convenient for your schedule. Again, I’d be happy to come anywhere in the country if I can coordinate several interviews in that area.
There are many legendary, regular contributors to CC-- many with 5-figure numbers of posts. I wonder how many of them would be willing to sacrifice the “Confidential” aspect of their forum participation to talk on camera.
I think if the info posted in post #26 had been explained earlier, perhaps in the OP, the responses might have been different.
Well…the OP asked for PM replies. I’m guessing he is getting those…for the cities he wants…and the school’s he wants.
I thought it said to reply to this thread and they’d reply to the poster by PM.
Used to be that a new poster had to have a certain # of posts in their post count before they could use PM. Is that not still true in the current format?
@jym26, there’s no minimum post count required for PMs now, although as you can imagine, the moderators have asked repeatedly for the feature to be reinstated.
Thanks, ML. I do think that was a helpful feature for many reasons.
Jym…you are right…well, I don’t see anyone volunteering to be interviewed!
Well, the fact is that by going on camera one would be violating the confidentiality of one’s kids. Even though we talk about them here to varying degrees, we don’t actually put their names out there to be googled! And we do try to exercise some discretion. 
I know that a determined person could figure out who lots of our kids are, but I don’t think that most of us try to do that.
I was interviewed by a Wall Street Journal writer two times because of CC. I’m quite sure my kids would not have card what I said. One time was about othe spending associated with college (I was asked because one of my kids was a music major). The second time was on how we outfitted the dorm room.
I’m not sure my kids cared about either interview, where I was identified by name and town.
I think my kid would kill me, no matter what the topic. 
Mine can’t even stand that I’m on CC.
I was interviewed from someone approved by CC a few years ago and was horribly misquoted. I’ll never do that again lol