Abbreviation Thread

[curmudgeon]

That would be laughing my @#$ off.

[curmudgeon]

OB, hooked refers to an applicant that has a "hook", a trait, or sometimes almost a gimmick without the negative connotation, if you will, that moves the app upwards a notch , maybe two. Examples at some schools might be gender, urm status, foreign, athlete they need, oboeist they need, first generation college, or geographic diversity. Some hooks are far more valuable at some schools than others. For example D's gender at RPI may be a hook, whereas D 's female status at Vassar-no hook. D being from the SW, is maybe a small hook at Hamilton or Colby, no hook at Harvard-plenty of Texans. A "tip" OTOH is something that will tip a candidates app one way or the other, if it is sitting on the fence. A "tip" is generally considered less than a hook and is mostly used (it seems ) to describe a coach that gets one or two admits, and a certain number of tips (qualified , yes-but just that extra nudge). A tip is less than a hook. At least that is my understanding.

[jym626]

Orangeblossom-
We will assume, of course, that you are not referring to "hooking up". That is an entirely different issue.......

[collegecanwait]

Congregationalists : This group believed that each congregation had the right and duty to make decisions independent of any higher authority. So it was the bishop one

[crash]

NE - New England

Ohio-Mom - you asked about the Little Ivies

The Little Ivy's:
(until they went co-ed in the 70's) were the six or seven older, prestigious NE male LAC's - including (correct me if I'm wrong...) Williams, Amherst, Trinity, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Hobart, Union, Colgate

The Seven Sisters:
(until most of them went co-ed) were the female equivalent: Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley, Sarah Lawrence, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Connecticut College.

Then there was Barnard (affiliated with Columbia) and Radcliffe (Affiliated with Harvard)

[jmmom]

The Seven Sisters were/are: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley. Interestingly, Pembroke (the female college of Brown University) wasn't among them.
- an alum

[crash]

Thanks for clarifying, jmmom...am curious...how come Sarah Lawrence wasn't? Kind of fits the profile, doesn't it?

[sr6622]

What are the public ivies?

[jmmom]

Per handout from S' Guidance Office:

A group of state-supported colleges and universities have long been recognized for the superior educational opportunities they provide. Richard Moll, Dean of Enrollment at Vassar College, suggests the following public Ivy League equivalents and nine runners up.

The Public Ivys

• University of California - at Berkeley,at Davis,at Irvine,at Los Angeles,at Riverside,at San Diego,at Santa Barbara,at Santa Cruz
• Miami University of Ohio
• University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Vermont at Burlington
• Universtiy of Virginia at Charlottesville
• William and Mary College of Virginia

The Best of the Rest

• University of Colorado at Boulder
• Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta
• University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
• Pennsylvania State University at University Park
• University of Pittsburgh
• State University of New York at Binghamton
• University of Washington at Seattle
• University of Wisconsin at Madison

*whew, that was a lot of typing*

crash - I really don't know why Sarah Lawrence isn't an "official" 7 Sister

The Seven Sisters are a group of women's colleges which were organized in 1927 to better promote female education. The members are:

• Barnard College New York, New York, affiliated with Columbia University
• Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
• Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Massachusetts
• Radcliffe College Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts
• Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York
• Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts

Two of the Seven Sisters, Mount Holyoke and Smith, are also members of the Five Colleges
1978 marked a historic milestone when all of the Seven Sisters schools finally had woman presidents. Not all of the Seven Sisters remain all-female colleges; some have become coeducational. Vassar began accepting men in 1969. In 1963, Harvard College assumed joint responsibility with Radcliffe over Radcliffe undergraduates. In 1999 Radcliffe College was dissolved, and Harvard assumed full responsibility over the affairs of female undergraduates. Radcliffe is now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in womens studies
and part of Harvard University.

[crash]

Thanks JMMom - S. Lawrence and also Conn College... I guess it's simply because they were once women's colleges....

[baseballindc]

So what exactly is the "real UM"? (I know there's no such thing, but hey.) When I was living in Maryland, and I'd speak of "UM" referring to, say, Michigan, I'd get these weird looks. Seems everyone there assumes "UM" to be U. of Maryland and doesn't even consider any other school as such.

I know - duh, of course Md.'ers would think of UM as Maryland first, but still.

That said:
UM - take your pick!

U. of Michigan
U. of Miami
U. of Maryland
U. of Minnesota
U. of Montana

Couple stretches:

U. of Massachusetts (UMass)
U. Of Mississippi (Ole Miss)

[somebodynew]

Actually, I've always seen the University of Maryland to be UMD.

[Faline2]

Missouri, Columbia campus

[momof1]

USAFA - United States Air Force academy
USNA - United States Naval Academy
USMMA-United States Merchant Marine Academy
USCGA - United States Coast Guard Academy
USMA - United States Military Academy

[Spiker]

you know, DP's, that's Dear Parents.....you might write out the abbreviation the first time and then use the abbreviation. (that's what the teach ya in school) I haven't a CLUE what many of these abbreviations mean (what the heck is HYP???) and it doesn't make sense to keep coming back to this page to find a definition. And some of us do want to glean some wisdom from the parent pages.. thanks