<p>Technically speaking "The Ivies" are the eight members of the Ivy League, an athletic conference.
In alphabetical order: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn (UPenn), Princeton, Yale.</p>
<p>Eek - sorry for my horrible social faux paux - apologies to Oklahoma!</p>
<p>and is USC for So. California or South Carolina??</p>
<p>on here USC always means university of southern california, and I don't think U. South Carolina is mentioned enough in real life or on cc for it to be a big issue. </p>
<p>On the OSU issue, I've called it OSU and had many people think I was talking about either Oregon or Ohklahoma, so I now just call it ohio state</p>
<p>No faux pas ohio, it's a regional thang. Kind of like UT being Tennessee or Texas.</p>
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BWRK - Bright, well-rounded kid
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<p>Oh, thanks for that one....I was wondering what the heck that meant. </p>
<p>BTW, I've seen the initials AI and tried to do a search to find out how to come up with a score. I have a vague idea what it means, but it wouldn't come up on my searches :mad: </p>
<p>Anyone???</p>
<p>Admissions Index</p>
<p>UNC - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
U of C - University of Chicago
SU - Syracuse University (but also Seattle U)
USD - University of San Diego (but also University of South Dakota)
CMU - Carnegie Mellon U
NYU - New York U
SMU - Southern Methodist U
UCB - University of California, Berkleley, also known as "Cal"
UCLA - University of Calif, Los Angeles
UCR - University of Calif, Riverside
UCSD - University of Calif. San Diego
UCSB - University of Calif, Santa Barbara
UCSC - University of California, Santa Cruz
UCD - University of California, Davis
UCM - University of California Merced (opening next year)
SDSU - San Diego State University</p>
<p>Admissions related terms:
Stats - a student's GPA, test scores, curriculum and extracurriculars
ACT - an alternative to the SAT
SAT - the big brown cat SAT on the little grey mouse (sorry, the College Board is on my crap list this week)
GC - guidance counselor
RD - Regular decision</p>
<p>Board related Abbreviations
CC College Confidential
Cur The poster curmudgeon :)</p>
<p>cc- can also mean community college</p>
<p>THANK YOU!!!!!!</p>
<p>This is the best thread ever!!!!</p>
<p>Most of the abbreviations I figured out after a few posts...but DS and DD were baffling me...I'll sleep better tonight!</p>
<p>CCC: California Community College</p>
<p>Particularly relevant because the UCs have an agreement with certain CCCs that offer guaranteed admission at junior year.</p>
<p>GTO: Guaranteed Transfer Option (the option offered to some freshman UC applicants to go to a CCC and transfer into the UC that offered this)</p>
<p>TAP: Transfer Agreement ? (the form/agreement you sign that allows you automatic acceptance from CCC to UC provided you finish a certain set of classes with a certain level of achievement)</p>
<p>IGETC: Intersegmental General Education Transfer Credit (The set of courses and agreements that the UCs and select CCCs have which means that if you complete the prescribed set of courses, you will have satisfied that UC's general education requirements.)</p>
<p>Thanks celebrian25 :)</p>
<p>I haven't seen these yet (forgive me if I'm repeating):
YMMV = your mileage may vary
NTTAWWT = not that there's anything wrong with that (to quote Seinfeld ;) )</p>
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on here USC always means university of southern california, and I don't think U. South Carolina is mentioned enough in real life or on cc for it to be a big issue
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Actually, I was reading a thread where they were talking about UNC- Chapel Hill vs Emory or something related thereto that they kept mentioning USC. I was baffled until I realized (or they spelled out) that they were referring to U of South Carolina. I suppose it is a regional thing, as I was reading about the Duke/UNC/ Davison/Emory stuff, as I am in the SE</p>
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Oh,carolyn-that is funny.Thanks for the laugh.</p>
<p>I'm sure it comes up, I was saying in what I've encountered, there has never been any confusion (btw I live in Ohio).</p>
<p>Princeton is sometimes referred to as pton or p-ton. Dartmouth as dart, ohio state as tOSU (the ohio state university), KU is Kansas U., but it can be Kentucky or any other K-state (if any other's exist)</p>
<p>Good thing that U of Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, Auburn, etc don't get talked about too much. I'd be totally lost.... AU? UofA? UAB? Also, I was in college in the '70's. Unfortunately, when we abbreviated our college name, (Vassar - VC) people thought we were referring to the VietCong!! :eek:</p>
<p>There was a very funny thread not too long ago where people were trying to see if they could decipher long abbreviations. It was pretty funny, and clever, but I haven't found it yet.. Stay tuned...</p>
<p>TOEFL - test of english as a foreign language</p>
<p>My favorite college one (not that anyone on CC would ever talk about this school!): IUPUI a/k/a oo-eey, poo-eey, Indiana University-Purdue University - Indianapolis.</p>
<p>OP - original post(er)</p>
<p>OT = off topic</p>
<p>And most important: here's the link to the smilies :D
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies</a></p>
<p>not :confused: anymore</p>