The reporter who wrote the story is the same on who made this request
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1972002-help-with-a-washington-post-story-p1.html
Sorry, I do not think that she did a good job
Did the article change? I see no reference to “Queen Bee’s” or “Alpha Mom’s” or parents pretending to be students.
Maybe CC should stop allowing these reporters to solicit posters to help with their articles.
Or at least vet them a little more thoroughly…
CC junkie here. I love to follow the parents of XXXX boards. I learn soooo much info there. I also feel a kinship to parents that are chasing merit, esp Auto merit. Because that is our road for sure.
The reporters are vetted to a certain degree before they are allowed to post a request for interviews (and if they send backchannel requests those are usually, by good cc’ers, sent to the mods for approval). What the writers do/say, however, is not in cc’s control.
I think a paragraph or two was removed.
Cash helps. At least sometimes
Weird that the article didn’t end up being anything like what the journalist had posted she was writing about - and the only quote of a “real” person had a child going to Denison.
And, I’m curious: “Also among its critics is David Hawsey, who helped found College Confidential. He said that while the site helped make some people wealthy”
Who are the ppl who have been made wealthy by all the time I spend loitering around this site?!
The article lacks depth and insights.
All right, let us all say, “Fake News” and be done with it. :))
@GnocchiB I think it made “the founder” wealthy!! Lol!
The stuff about the queen bees and the parents pretending to be kids was in the comments, not the article.
When the full ticket cost of attending many schools is in excess of $72k per annum, it is not surprising that parents would want to learn as much as possible on CC.
@Sam-I-Am , agreed, college costs are absurd. Parents are definitely not happy when they pay sticker price while someone else goes for free.
@Tperry1982 - same.
I was interviewed for the article and was told I’d be quoted. I objected to being quoted by my real name and, after speaking with her editor, the author agreed to quote me using my CC username. Apparently my insights didn’t make the final cut.
I expected the article to be more informative than it turned out.
Expectation: Tremendous
Actually: SAD!
I spoke to the reporter for about 15 minutes and gave her several examples of how helpful CC had been for me and other people. Not a single word of what I said made it into the article.
I suspect that the author was assigned the article with predisposition and bias, either coming from the editor or from herself. I further suspect the author does not yet have kids in college and therefore lacks recent personal experience to put the entire college application process into perspective. A lost opportunity to be informative…too bad.
Am I the only one who wants to change my user name to “Dreamkiller?”
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