<p>“Kiddos.” Why would you come up with a nickname for a word that has more letters/syllables than the original?</p>
<p>tough schools</p>
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<p><em>takes rhetorical question as actual question</em> </p>
<p>Because it rolls off the tongue better.</p>
<p>Elite, top [arbitrary number], reach, match, safety, dream school (to refer to one that’s a reach), Podunk U</p>
<p>Re: why such terms as dd=dear daughter etc.</p>
<p>The Internet used to be slow (dial-up) and usage was charged by the hour. Typing out “daughter” was a waste of time and money, so posters used abbreviations. Today, the Internet is faster and payment flat rate but the early abbreviations remain just like U=you and R=are in texting. </p>
<p>QLM</p>
<p>Entitled. Entitlement. Makes me want to SCREAMMMMMMMMMM!!!</p>
<p>Speaking of prestigious: where should I send my precious child: NYU Sport Management but without scholarship or Fordham Gabelli on a decent scholarship? What do you guys think? Informed answers are welcome.</p>
<p>Prospie
(for prospective student)
Oh I just noticed Jane also posted this sorry for the repeat- but i agree and now can’t delete)</p>
<p>“Affirmative Action”</p>
<p>I hate when some AA get in to these top universities and people starts refering to affirmative action. I mean come on! Every student that gets in to these top schools work extremely hard to get where they are, and that’s including women and minorities. To me, I see that term as an insult because it’s basically saying that the only reason I got into such a such school was because of my skin color and not on my potential nor merits.</p>
<p>‘social justice’</p>
<p>Seems to be ALL the Professors of non-job majors talk about.</p>
<p>Somehow, we are suppose to support that cause, not sure how. But, it seems to be what much of the tuition of private schools is for. Oh, that and the Faculty swimming pool…</p>
<p>“holistic”</p>
<p>Snowflake and kiddo.</p>
<p>Kiddo sounds like a kid made out of play doh.</p>
<p>In post #248, CuriousJDG9513 has alerted me to a source of possible misunderstanding of an abbreviation I sometimes use. In any of my posts where I have mentioned AA, I have used it to abbreviate Affirmative Action. I believe that CuriousJDG9513 uses AA to abbreviate African-Americans.</p>
<p>Since I have been using AA to mean Affirmative Action (exclusively), the rest of my commentary in the posts containing “AA” will generally refer to Affirmative Action. The posts will seem quite weird if readers think I am using AA in a different sense.</p>
<p>Of course, there are many exceptionally well qualified African-Americans, and students from other minority groups, who are admitted to top colleges and would be admitted under a totally race-blind scheme.</p>
<p>I am going to drop the abbreviation in future posts.</p>
<p>Guyonamission post #103 last paragraph about ego…One of the most true posts on this thread. Humility is one of the assets that makes for the most loved and respected person, whatever group they are from. Being able to say I am the average human and am no better than other average humans, takes a big load off of life. One of my friends would always say…“dare to be mediocre” and with that perspective, it is easier to take chances, make mistakes, learn for the sake of learning and fulfill your potential.</p>
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<p>I agree. I don’t know what the fuss is with the DD and DS…</p>
<p>IMHO, acronyms are here to stay. IRL, people are accustomed to the practice when they text. BTW, people also do it via iChat which was something my BFF and I discovered a decade ago. Lol. OMG, it’s 2013 ppl! If you cannot understand that acronym usage is a part of computer culture, then go ahead and compose essays/posts/emails about DUI, CDOs, MP3, and PTSD without using acronyms. </p>
<p>OTOH, I see your point that too much acronyms can make a post barely understandable. FWIW, the parents in CC take the time to write coherent sentences. If they use D, S, DD, H or W give them a break. </p>
<p>TTYL. BRB. xoxo. 
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<p>“Shoo-in,” especially when it’s spelled “shoe-in.” And it almost always is.</p>
<p>halcyonheather, I’ll assume you’re a parent? Then you, among many, should know that indeed when referring to a child getting into the college of his parents’ preference, the term is indeed “shoe-in”! And the term has many additional proper uses in discussing parent-to-child interactions. 
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<p>And the “evolution” of the helicopter mommy has made shoe-in even more right-on!</p>
<p>… from the slithering Clinton era … graviatas.</p>
<p>“Small liberal-arts colleges.” I can’t think of a single LAC with more than 5,000 or so students.</p>
<p>“Bad Test Taker”
- Eh, not really for this forum, and while I understand that some people really have anxiety or ADHD issues, I see that this excuse gets thrown far more than it should be. I mean, if a kid has a GPA of 3.8, then he should be able to score at least a 1700 on the SAT without any issues. Honestly, the fact that so many kids brag about getting straight As in their AP courses but can’t seem to muster a four or above in any of them should raise some red flags.</p>
<p>“Affirmative Action”
- A topic that I would not touch even with a ten-feet pole, but this is getting quite irritating to me, as unlike the other examples, it’s quite prevalent at my school. It seems that there are several kids who are blaming that they did not get in their top choice due to being white or Asian. To top it off, I’ve heard three kids with merely decent SAT scores, two of them in the 1700s, and the other in the 1800s, complain that they did not get into UNC just because they were not black.</p>
<p>“Rigorous Private School”
- Not really in general, as I am aware that there are preparatory schools where SAT scores above 2100 are the norm yet the student body has an average GPA of about 3.3. But I see a lot of kids who seem to be throwing these words around as they were rice during a wedding, along with egregious cases where a kid tries to justify his “measly” 3.9 by blaming it on his school’s difficulty.</p>
<p>“Tufted”
- Building along the fact that we are technically using a proper verb, more specifically the name of a university, as noun, I see that more and more kids are claiming that they have been Tufted from highly selective schools, such as Duke and Caltech, and that is all that I will say towards this subject.</p>
<p>“State U”
- Again, not as a general statement, but I kind of dislike seeing so many people bash state universities as a place for underachievers to party their parents’ money away. I mean, there are several excellent public universities such as UCLA, UMich, UCB, UNC, UVa, and many more, so why the generalization?</p>
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