Abbreviation Thread

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<p>new to CC, this is all very helpful – thanks!</p>

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<p>ROI for return on investment, when talking about financial choices</p>

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<p>More than 10 times in this thread different posters have listed the Seven Sisters (often wrong schools, mispelled or both) as “all girls schools…most of them are co-ed now”. These schools were and are all women’s colleges.
Again, these schools were and are all women’s colleges except:
Radcliffe was consolidated with Harvard, and Vassar is co-ed with a 43% male student body.
Wellesley, Smith, Mt Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard continue to be outstanding selective colleges for women.
(Sarah Lawrence was a women’s college, now 30% male students and Connecticut College was a women’s college now 38% male students)</p>

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<p>MOOC
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>what does cirriped or cirroped mean in regards to military?!</p>

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<p>@hmdemarzino Cirripedia are barnacles [Barnacles</a> - Cirripedia - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life](<a href=“http://eol.org/pages/2630893/]Barnacles”>http://eol.org/pages/2630893/)
Not sure what that has to do with military or colleges.</p>

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<p>BME biomedical engineering</p>

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<p>NCP - non-custodial parent</p>

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<p>How do you denote “daughter, HS class of 2016”? D16? That’s what I’m thinking. Not 16th daughter. Help! </p>

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<p>When private messaging, I notice it says the person’s user name to who the message is directed to, then will say for example" … and 23 others". Anybody know what that means? 23 people also seen the private message? It was forwarded to 23 people? 23 comments made on that private message thread? </p>

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<p>^ Post that (where its being discussed) in the community forum</p>

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<p>@cassius how about trOllP</p>

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<p>I have a great way to clear up some of the university abbreviation confusion. You go by the older school for the common abbreviation. Newer schools need to be more creative. This may really ruffle some feathers.</p>

<p>For example:</p>

<p>SDSU = South Dakota State University (est. 1862)
USC = University of South Carolina (est. 1805)</p>

<p>San Diego State (est 1897) - perhaps SnDSU or SDgSU - besides the name is stupid. San Diego is a city, not a state. Should simply be Cal State San Diego to follow the rest of their system.</p>

<p>University of Southern California (est 1880) - simply SoCal or USoC - another pet peeve, private schools whose names sound like state universities…</p>

<p>UM - Michigan (est 1817) </p>

<p>Minnesota is usually UMN or UMinn
Missouri is usually simply Mizzou perhaps or UMO or UMOC
Maryland is usually UMD
Maine could be UMaine or simply Maine</p>

<p>UW - Wisconsin (est 1848) </p>

<p>Washington (est 1861) - perhaps UWA or UWash (lol)</p>

<p>Wyoming (est 1886) - UWY or Wyoming</p>

<p>OSU - Oregon State U. (est 1868)</p>

<p>Ohio State (est 1870) - UBuck or OhSU or tOSU</p>

<p>Oklahoma State (est 1890) - OkieSt or OKSU</p>

<p>Any better ideas?</p>

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<p>What is DECA? I see it on kids’ resumes.</p>

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<p>Consolation --it is a somewhat vocational club focused on business, marketing, hospitality. It’s a national organization (think of it like a 4-H or Future Farmers of America, just more business-based). </p>

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<p>DECA is a great marketing/ business club. My daughter is going to Atlanta next week for the Nationals.</p>

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<p>bigbossman–UVM is the University of Vermont (from their web site: The initials UVM stand for the Latin words Universitas Viridis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains.)</p>

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<p>What is IB?</p>

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<p>IB stands for International Baccalaureate. It’s kind of like AP courses, but with IB, if you are going for the IB Diploma, you have to take classes in each of 5 or 6 groups, as well as do community work, write an extended essay (EE), and take a class called Theory of Knowledge, which my S has described to me as a kind of philosophy course. You take exams in each class, and if your scores are high enough, you get an IB Diploma. You don’t have to go for the Diploma, though. You can pick and choose your classes if you like. <a href=“International Baccalaureate - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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bigbossman–UVM is the University of Vermont (from their web site: The initials UVM stand for the Latin words Universitas Viridis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains.)

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<p>Thanks for that explanation! I always wondered about that. VerMont didn’t make sense.</p>