And why only SAT and ACT sections? Maybe GRE and GMAT sections on the Graduate Sections too?
I saw several suggestions here I’d support:
- A section for athletics. Place for current athletes to chat, place for potential recruits to get info, etc
<li>Allied Health Professions section. You’ve got a variety of Medical sections already, but nothing for those Allied Health Professions eg. Athletic Training, Physical/Occupational Therapy, Exercise Science, etc</li>
<li>Regional or state pages for the smaller schools.</li>
I’d like to see sections for international schools, esp. the schools in the UK.
I saw somone suggest a common app forum. The thread gets pretty jumbled with questions and it’s hard to get direct answers.
You could have a separate forum for the PSAT.
CCCTCL - College Confidential Colleges that Change Lives.
More detail / discussion about those hidden gems. It’s a no-brainer to find out about Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. I would love to be able to find out CTCL-style information about a broader range of colleges.
And the word “prestige” should be banned!
I’d like to see a community college section (the UC Transfers subsection seems to take this place a lot), maybe broken down by region, if not by state.
I’d also like to see a non-traditional/re-entry/independent student forum for students over age 24/25. We have different needs and questions than traditional students, especially in regards to financial aid, juggling personal lives, and housing. Sometimes I wonder if I should be reading the parents forum, since a lot of the issues parents are dealing with, I am dealing with, but for myself instead of a child.
How about a section for all those American students who go to school overseas at Department of Defense (DoDDS) or international schools? When they arrive in the states they are not exactly international students, but then again they are unlike other American students. My three children, though American, have spent their entire lives overseas.
Go CC !!!
A comment I just saw in the Common Application FAQ thread:
That’s still the fundamental issue. If questions are posted and then answered, but other users aren’t reading the questions and answers, the questions may pop up all over the place, and the people who have already answered them many times may start wondering why the questioners aren’t reading more.
Have a forum on Honors Colleges…advanced level colleges within a college. These don’t seem to have a separate resource for checking admission stats, etc.
Have a forum dedicated to the non-LACs, the tech/science/engineering colleges. (Including the hybrids especially like Harvey Mudd, etc.)
I definitely like the idea for regional/state-by-state forums, and the Honor Colleges forum (because I’m applying ED to one and can’t find any info on here!).
Definitely a section for Honors Colleges…
like others have expressed already…i also think an “athletic recruiting” forum would be a good addition.
also…a forum expressly for National Merit would be helpful…all the info. relating to NM would be in one forum rather than posters having to search through all the various threads on NM.
i found cc because my d was both NMF and a recruited student athlete. many cc posters were so kind in helping us find our way through college search, admissions, and financial aid, etc.
Well,I have a suggestion that is clearly NOT p.c.
I have a smart child who has a wealthy parent (the other one, not me). She was raised by me, and other parent paid child support, but we lived simply and she has been raised, for the most part, in limited circumstances, in apartments.
She has a wonderful ACT score and GPA.
She cannot apply for financial aid, due to the wealthy parent, who refuses to pay anything beyond the state university tab.
So she cannot afford to go to Ivy League schools, unless she,or I (if I could even get loans, which is doubtful) went into debt.
Here comes the p.c. issue. For years, I ignored affirmative action, just paid no attention.
Well, now, it’s an issue. My kid, who would be a huge asset in terms of ability cannot go to an Ivy League school, or even an expensive state school. She cannot get the financial aid. Yet a kid of less or even the same ability, who is a minority, gets to go.
I certainly think the minority student should be admitted to the state school that my child is doomed to attend, don’t get me wrong. But why should that minority get to go to an Ivy League college? Why the top schools in the land? Why not the typical state schools that so many others attend? If you want parity, then let’s have parity, and all attend the state schools together.
So what, then, is the reason that URMs are getting into Ivy League schools? I understand the argument about better integration of all minorities in the larger society if we have a trend of minorities holding prestigious degrees, but I would like my kid to have a crack at that prestigious degree, too. What is the benefit to others of having a URM in the classroom? To enable that student to give the ‘poor’ perspective during Ivy League classroom discussions, of growing up with limited means? So can my kid. How valuable is it really for a Native Amer. student to be able to bring up Native American culture, if he even knows his own heritage anyway, during a class discussion? Oh, it’s interesting, but not that useful. Not so useful, anyway, that it would justify keeping my kid, or others like her, out so that he could go instead.
Now that I have a college-bound daughter in this position, I am starting to wonder about the justice of affirmative action. Which is laughable, really, because I come from a family where especially my mother was all for the advancement of minorities, and I grew up steeped in that thinking. And yes, I sound ‘selfish’ and it’s just more scrapping over limited resources, I’m fully aware.
Thanks for giving me the chance to vent.
Whyhaveaa, your post is relevant to this thread-----how? If you wish to discuss AA (something already discussed ad nauseum at CC over the years), please repost this topic in another section—The Parents Cafe section, for instance). I understand that you’re brand new to CC, so your mistake is understandable. But addressing your anger over this issue in this thread is entirely inappropriate. Thanks;)
Another question that comes up frequently is: “We have one week to tour colleges in [certain geographic area]. What’s the best route to take?” It would make sense to group these discussions, or to collect the answers that have already been given.
In order to make things easier, (i.e. you don’t have to scroll through hundreds of threads/replies) there should be a FAQ tab. This would contain all of the answers re. common app questions, (?how do I correct a mistake if I already sent it out, ?How do I pay, etc., etc.,) and other practical issues that don’t really require discussion. Things like college app deadlines, etc that people post could be in the FAQ…
It might be helpful to have an “introduce yourself” section or a “read me first” section for new posters. It is nice, if people are willing to share a bit, to post a little more about themselves than they might put on their screenname page, so we can refer to this in order to post a more appropriate, directed response to their questions. Also, a “read me first” section could provide basic information about how to best use cc so that new posters have a place to reference, and don’t hve to ask the same questions repeatedly.
As an aside, I would suggest that you move all the “chance me” posts to the “what are my chances” section. That is where they belong-- not in the “college search” or “college admissions” forums, where the all to often appear.
For poster #75, “whyhaveaa”, have you read through this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/441477-fastest-growing-ethnic-category-great-colleges-race-unknown-83.html#post1060652160[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/441477-fastest-growing-ethnic-category-great-colleges-race-unknown-83.html#post1060652160</a>