Question for long-time CC members

College Confidential Community
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Every time I go to the main page, I see the various forum headings like “Parents Forum” and “College Life,” all with new discussion threads that seem to switch multiple times a day. The one exception to this is the thread listed for “Colleges and Universities,” which has been “Replies to: FBI - Youth Leadership Program” ever since I joined CC. Granted, I have only been part of the CC community since the summer, but it strikes me as odd that (a) the thread never changes, (b) the post is from 2014 and then there is one response from 2016, and © when I think of colleges and universities, I don’t think of FBI leadership programs.

Can anyone explain it to me? Would I be doing a public service if I somehow posted a new thread that would remove the FBI thread from its place of prominence, or would people be sad to see it go?

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Where exactly is this? I e never seen it…and I just looked for it…and could not find it.

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http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/categories

Scroll down to “Colleges and Universities.”

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@thumper1 When I click on the “Discuss and Interact” tab I can see all of the categories followed by a single thread is next to each category. The Colleges and Universities category is right under “parents forum.” If you go to the main discussion page and do a search for FBI you will find it. Apparently this has been more of a mystery for me than for others:)

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I visit the Colleges and Universities page daily, usually from the left menu from Top Forums. The Colleges and Universities page itself doesn’t really change, but you drill-down to find particular schools. For example, both my children attended schools in the CC Top Liberal Arts Colleges category. There are frequent postings for particular colleges/universities in this forum.

My guess is that particular thread is displayed because it appears under the U.S. Service Academies category. No other category has a thread underneath it. I think they changed the format a few years back so you are not permitted to create a new thread under a sub-category (or for Colleges and Universities), only inside a particular school’s area. Since it’s the only thread in the entire Colleges and Universities area that’s why it’s displaying (and never updates).

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Not sure what you are asking. Click on any of the individual colleges listed and it will take you to that schools’ forum.

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“… or would people be sad to see it go?”

Clearly it would depend on the entertainment value of your replacement.

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Actually, it appears there is nothing now under “Colleges and Universities” the alphabetical list is gone etc.

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Its all still there. Go to the list of the forums and click on “colleges and universities” . Perhaps you are looking at a wrong link?

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Colleges and Universities
▾ Sub Topics
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No discussions were found.

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If you see “No discussions were found” click on “U.S. Service Academies” to see the FBI.

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@vonlost Yes, but that’s the only thread I see, other than that, nothing.

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I deleted the two old threads so that now nothing shows up.

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@MaineLonghorn Thanks for using your superpowers to fix this issue!

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@MaineLonghorn - so now there is nothing under “colleges and Universities” There is no alphabetical list, etc… At least not for me…

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So when you click on “Colleges and Universities,” you don’t see the alphabetical list? This is the link:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/colleges-universities/

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Folks…when you get there…click on the LETTER of the alphabet, and the schools with that starting their name WILL appear!

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@MaineLonghorn I figured it out, it just said SubTopics - no threads found, but I just realized I need to click on SubTopics, and there they were. (I hadn’t needed to do that previously). Duh. Thanks.

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OK, great! It took me awhile to figure out CC, too. It’s not obvious.