<p>What does RSI stand for? 
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<p>RSI = Research Science Institute, a highly competitive and selective 6-week summer research program for 75 students, held at MIT (used to be MIT and Caltech, but I think the Caltech part is no more?). The students work directly with professors (or occasional grad students) on their active, on-going research projects. RSI attendance is sometimes seen as “automatic admittance” to MIT, but this is not the case. Qualifying for and successfully completing an RSI internship is indicative of having “the stuff” usually needed to qualify for admission to MIT, but it is not the <em>only</em> criterion considered.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml[/url]”>http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml</a></p>
<p>RSI = Research Science Institute at MIT</p>
<p>Aha! Thanks - that’s one that I don’t have to think about. ;)</p>
<p>man, over past 3 mnths i painstakingly figured out all the acronyms when i cud have juz come here!!
i really should hang out more at parents thread as u all give such mature arguments n thoughts… :)</p>
<p>OP: This is OT (J/K), but OMG - I am ROTFLMAO! OTOH, my BWRK is not into CC.</p>
<p>This is really funny! I thought a BWRK was a boring white rich kid!</p>
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No emswim, in cc language that would be a “development admit” .;)</p>
<p>What does “hooked”, “unhooked” mean? I saw it used a few times in one of the threads. Thanks!</p>
<p>good thread…ive been wondering about some of these</p>
<p>whats LMAO mean???</p>
<p>That would be laughing my @#$ off.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Orangeblossom-
We will assume, of course, that you are not referring to “hooking up”. That is an entirely different issue…</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>NE - New England</p>
<p>Ohio-Mom - you asked about the Little Ivies</p>
<p>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 </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Then there was Barnard (affiliated with Columbia) and Radcliffe (Affiliated with Harvard)</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying, jmmom…am curious…how come Sarah Lawrence wasn’t? Kind of fits the profile, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>What are the public ivies?</p>
<p>Per handout from S’ Guidance Office:
</em>whew, that was a lot of typing*</p>
<p>crash - I really don’t know why Sarah Lawrence isn’t an “official” 7 Sister
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<p>Thanks JMMom - S. Lawrence and also Conn College… I guess it’s simply because they were once women’s colleges…</p>