1. If it bothers you, feel free to turn off the ability to view people's signatures.
2. If it bothers other people, they can do the same. And if they don't have an account, the signatures don't show up anyway.
3. Members are free to have whatever they want in their signatures as long as it doesn't violate the TOS.
4. I take it you have never gone through the application cycle because literally as soon as you post "II!!!" in any school specific thread, the next response will, invariably, be "Awesome!!! Stats????" (and also, "when were you complete?" but that's not the issue here)
5. People are allowed to be proud of their accomplishments, and when people are proud of other people's accomplishments too, it makes the community better, not worse.
6. I have a lot of things I want to write here but I think it's best to leave it at that for now