<p>DId they respond?</p>
<p>I am not sure I want more media for my favorite schools. I have another D to consider... so lets leave amazing schools of midwest out of conversation ;)</p>
<p>Londondb, That was a wonderful idea.</p>
<p>Does anyone have info on Northern Illinois University located in Dekalb, Illiois? Most likely I'll be attending there. Any info will be great.</p>
<p>I once visited NIU. For reasons that escape me, it has a strong program in Southeast Asian studies, so, despite the fact that it is in the middle of cornfields, it has a certain cosmopolitan feel.</p>
<p>"DId they respond?"</p>
<p>Jenrik2714, here is your answer:</p>
<p>As you can see, the subforum was added. However, it has yet to get a reply. </p>
<p>FWIW, I would not like College Confidential to list 3 or 4,000 schools and become bloated beyond repair. The success of this site is based on the ability to generate dialogues between members. It is precisely that dialogue which creates the CONTENTS of the site. As you may have noticed, 99.99 % of information on this site is posted by members, and not by the owners or moderators. It is a mistake to believe that CC is "supposed" to have "this or that" information. It is all member driven. </p>
<p>In the particular case of a school not "receiving" attention, there is a VERY simple reason: nobody cared about it enough to start a thread. If YOU want to see more discussions about a few favorite schools, it is up to YOU to start writing about them in THE GENERAL forums. You cannot expect CC to provide a little special corner for monologues. </p>
<p>As far as your indictement of CC, you seem confused and ambivalent between criticizing the absence of posting and the presence of posts that contain criticisms. Again, this is a result of having a public forum. If members decide that posts critical of a particular institution are warranted, that is THEIR right. They are posting an opinion ... an opinion that might not be endorsed by anyone nor censured by the management -as long as it remains within the TOS. </p>
<p>In conclusion, if you want more positive news about the schools you support, it is up to you to get it going. Gather your facts and start posting. Complaining that the information does not exist but failing to contribute to its presence will not get you anywhere. If you do not succeed at first, try again. </p>
<p>FWIW, I have learned about many, many schools because of the postings of other members. When I joined CC, I did not know about 90% of the schools discussed on a regular basis in the forums. And trust me, this goes a lot farther than the Ivies.</p>
<p>OTOH:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=132705%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=132705</a></p>
<p>I still think that a forum of "other colleges" by state would not hurt anyone and might actually help some people. HYPS(etc) hopefuls certainly wouldn't have to visit, but others may want to.</p>
<p>KSU ! I was floored to see the last year's college rooster from three major private prep schools in my hometown included attendees at Kent State University . What is the mystique of this school among the students ??</p>
<p>Chances at Kent State?</p>
<p>"You have a shot."</p>
<p>Okay, that's sick sick sick and will make sense mostly to a certain generation.</p>
<p>Xiggi is correct. With CC, it's not "If you don't see it, ask for it." It's "If you don't see it, make it."</p>
<p>The number of options discussed on CC has broadened greatly over the past three years and many options are now discussed in far more depth. (Part of this is due to some PITA parents like me "adopting" certain schools or clusters of schools with which they're familiar to comment upon.)</p>
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<p>"You have a shot."</p>
<p>Okay, that's sick sick sick and will make sense mostly to a certain generation.
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<p>Um, yeah, that was sick, but more seriously that is probably part of the mystique of Kent State to this day.</p>
<p>If my opinion gets a dialogue going, then it has served its purpose.
I will try to post other schools in my region but I don't want to hear slack because its not a HYPS or any other elitist school.</p>
<p>Maybe we can start a regional section like Midwest, West, East, South so there is a balanced coverage of schools. </p>
<p>Another thing, lay of URM's trying to find info on colleges. My dd who happens to be a URM is a freshman in high school. I dare let someone say she got into college because of AA.</p>
<p>Blue147
I know several kids who go to Nothern, they like it. I do not think it is very academic or rigorous school in general so it will be up to you- you will get out of it what you put in.
Did you try to work on your grades this past semester? Take another ACT? It might not get you in the college of your dreams but it will improve your studing skills for future.</p>
<p>TheDad: That confused me for a second -- but then I laughed in a sort of horror. It was covered in my AP Government class, actually.</p>
<p>I heard NIU has a good accounting program</p>
<p>"I will try to post other schools in my region but I don't want to hear slack because its not a HYPS or any other elitist school.</p>
<p>Another thing, lay of URM's trying to find info on colleges. My dd who happens to be a URM is a freshman in high school. I dare let someone say she got into college because of AA."</p>
<p>Jenrik, why do you have to display such an aggressive attitude? </p>
<p>There are many families of students who attend HYPS on CC, and I do not think they give "slack" to others. There are many URMs on this board as well. My feeling has been that the overwhelming majority of posters have been -and are- very supportive of the accomplishments of URMs. On the other hand, URMs cannot be oblivious to the fact that many qualified students are denied admission at their dream schools. With single digit acceptance rates at our most prestigious schools, there are many, many students who feel shortchanged and may resent the advantages given to URM in admission. </p>
<p>Such is life and we are only human!</p>
<p>I've been around the parents forum on and off for a few years--son is now a freshman at Quinnipiac. I was a lurker for a long time and was a little intimidated by the topics on these forums. I stuck around because I was learning about the admissions process--I figured the variables changed according to the school, but the process was pretty much the same. I eventually decided to ask about schools that we were looking at--and I received an unbelievable amount of information. In fact, a thread about schools for B students was recently brought back to life -- even though the original post was LAST December! I even (recently) got a few private messages from well-meaning forum members with suggestions for my son. </p>
<p>I also found that many other parents were looking at the same schools for their kids that we were. S was looking at U of Scranton, Towson, James Madison, Marist, and UNC Wilmington to name a few. We are now looking at schools for our junior daughter, and I still check these forums regularly.</p>
<p>Please don't be afraid to ask about a particular school--you may be surprised at the number of replies you get. CC members are a very helpful bunch!</p>
<p>"Does anyone have info on Northern Illinois University located in Dekalb, Illiois? Most likely I'll be attending there. Any info will be great."</p>
<p>You'll get more answers if you start threads in Parents Forum and in College Search asking the same question. Right now, your question is buried in a long thread on another topic.</p>
<p>I'm sorry that I don't know anything about NIU, but I do reply when I happen to know about schools that people post about. This includes some small regional colleges and tier 3 ones. </p>
<p>I don't think that starting more boards for individual colleges will attract posters, but I do think that starting threads about non big name colleges on the main CC boards would draw a wider audience as well as more information about colleges that aren't top tier.</p>
<p>Cathymee, I haven't seen the original post of which you speak so I'm ignorant of any misunderstood UCF comments. :-) As for what you pointed out about the school in your post, yes, it does indeed have several impressive selling points that deserve a good look. I also second your observation about how well UCF recruits NMS students. They do have great award packages and also do right by the family in terms of making sure you can visit, etc. But best of all they do have some outstanding programs of study for hardworking, serious students. The fact that it's in Orlando ain't too shabby, either.</p>
<p>First of all, the list is a great start but it's not as comprehensive as some of you allege. There are many schools NOT listed. There are around 1500 4-year colleges in the U.S.</p>
<p>Second of all, the advice to "just not lurk" doesn't strike me as the best solution, either. Believe me, I don't lurk. If I posted about Unversity of Nebraska at Kearney, or Northwestern College, or Mary Baldwin, or UM-Flint in the Parent forum or the College Search forum, I might get a few responses and then the thread would quite quickly drop down to where it wouldn't be seen. If someone else came along interested in UN-K two weeks later, are they going to see that thread? I don't think so. But if there was a "Other Colleges in Nebraska" forum (for example) such a person might have a chance at finding that thread (because low level of traffic would keep such posts up longer)--or might start another that would be noticed by interested parties. </p>
<p>I also don't want to plead for a new forum to be started every time I have a random thought about a campus that isn't well known. If you knew how cluttered my mind was....</p>
<p>I don't think "tons of traffic" needs to be a criterion for whether such forums are useful. I think a low-but-steady level of traffic is exactly what's appropriate, given that we know there won't be hundreds of CC visitors looking at these schools. The occasional reader will want to chime in, and those responses can be there as a record that last a little longer than responses do on the livelier forums.</p>