I call it a college website. I tell my family I’m checking in with my virtual friends.
I use PM when I have specific info that may help one person and it doesn’t really need to read by everyone.
I don’t consider it a “college website” even though it is effective. But it scope goes beyond simply college. We got HSL and ACT/SAT/AP forums, that sort of separate things from colleges stuff. But however this is the best place to gain personal answer rather then a statistical one.
“A place with a collection of stuck up students who want to believe they’re better than others”. Also, “Home of the Ivy-worshipers”.
The parents seem to act a lot better. And some of the students seem fine. But there are a lot who simply annoy me with how obsessed they are with so-called “elite” colleges/universities.
Of the choices, it’s a forum…
I refer to it as " the college blog that I spend way too much time on."
“A college forum where everyone’s really really smart” is usually my term of choice…=P But if people understood the term, I’d totally call it “Shrine to all things Ivy” lol. =P
what about “Brainiac Blogs”
I never mention it to anyone–except my daughter, who used to visit CC herself when she was applying to college and who figured out my username from my posts.
She’s my younger child, and it’s embarrassing to still be addicted to CC a year and a half after she graduated from college. It’s time to move on, but the people here are so interesting that I keep coming back.
I assume that my daughter’s interest in the site has long since faded away. She’s saner than I am.
I call CC :my imaginary friends." Only thing is, I’ve met about a dozen of them IRL by now!
Both my kids hung out here for a couple of years. We tried not to step into each other’s territory. These days I’m mostly in the Parent Lounge trying to manage the empty nest and the rest of my life. Works for me!
In general, I refer to it and consider it, first and foremost, a college resource site. Within that I have sub-community of what my family calls my “invisible friends”, and come here for the answer to just about anything and everything.
It’s a forum but anyone over the age of 60 thinks that whenever they type on their keyboard they’re blogging. Look at me! I’m blogging!
To paraphrase Chicago’s unoffical motto, “the place where your hopes and dreams go to die because everyone has better GPAs, ECs, test scores, and essays than you do.”
^^^ Very true. You really have no idea if the stats people post are authentic or a complete fabrication. At times the advice being flung out reminds me somewhat of a person who goes up to strangers at the mall asking for college/career advice (would ANYONE actually do that???). I think anyone who participates here shouldn’t be so naive as to accept every bit of advice at face value. You have to know how to separate what is useful from what is nonsense.
CC is a place for rejected losers to ■■■■■ about their made-up accomplishments and for parents to do the same about their child’s accomplishments. A typical CC post:
Yo, i gutz 2400 on SATZ! i’m sooooooooooooooooooo coooooooooooolllllllllllllllllll!!! yo can u chance me! lOlz XD i ReAlLy wAnNa gO 2 cOlLeGe! i’M sO cOoL aNd i wAnNa gO 2 hArVaRd!!! lulz sooooooooooooooooo cooooooooooolllllllllllllll!!!1 i hOpE i dOnT gRoW uP 2 dElIvEr gArBage 1 dayyyyyyyyy. (Typical CC student)
Hello everybody. I would just like to boast about how much I enjoy trolling this website and creating a holographic image of a fabricated child who is capable of achieving superhuman academic feats. My (SON/DAUGHTER) has a 2400 SAT, 20 APs, and has tons of extracurriculars. I am an overly ambitious helicopter parent who would like to push that lazy child further so that he/she does not become a local garbage man. I would appreciate advice from any other stuck up know-it-all parents like me (Typical CC parent).
There you go. Hope you like it.
Bulletin board.
I’m a senior have been using it for the sat forums after I take it and to compare myself to the “chances” posts. Does anyone know what “bump” means? I see it on replies to those “chances” posts.
People are “bumping” their thread up the page, so it shows up more prominently. Please note that bumping is considered spam, so you shouldn’t do it! If everybody did it, things would get kind of chaotic.
Ahh ok tht makes sense. Thanks!
If I am telling some one about cc, I would call it a forum. My family calls it the imaginary friends.
I refer to it as a college information website. <em>^▁^</em> Super helpful.
This is how Urbandictioanry defines CC:
[Urban</a> Dictionary: College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=College%20Confidential]Urban”>Urban Dictionary: College Confidential)
I think CC is very informational given that I’m at the right subsection (aka not Chance Me Threads) 