I never heard of anyone using that term, but at her high school the parents tended to play their cards very close to the chest and not talk openly (weird, I know) so I had very, very few conversations with other parents. The topic of committing didn’t come up with the counselor, so it’s possible that it’s also east coast language but I never happened to hear it.
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Yes, she was a rising junior, I knew she would have a long search process.
@premed_equestrian I hope you two find each other!
@acpurple22 I think there were two main reasons. First, although I wrote that she was interested in freshman year abroad, it was actually more of an interest in global experiences in general, and Northeastern has a lot more of that than Drexel. Second, she did a two week summer program at Northeastern the year before her senior year, and I think that helped her feel at home on the campus. So when the option do do Oakland for a year and then definitely transfer to Boston was on the table, it outweighed Drexel. But Drexel was a very strong fit for her, because of the co-op program and the urban setting, and she would have been happy there.
@DigitalDad I had to ask her 
(note: a window popped up to tell me that it is better to combine responses and use @ so I am doing that now - sorry for cluttering the thread with mini-responses, it’s a college confidential learning curve)
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Congratulations to you both! You certainly put a lot into helping her find a great place for her where she would thrive. Sounds like she landed exactly where she should be!
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SIR stands for “statement of intent to register“ - an acceptance of admission form used (AFAIK only) by the UCs and CSUs. That’s why you don’t hear that phrase here on the east coast.
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This is fantastic. You sound like such a level-headed and caring parent. You helped her dig deep and figure things out. It sounds like D had a LOT of good choices but I am happy Northeastern worked out for her!
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Here’s an update for anyone who is reading this. My daughter is SO happy at Northeastern. She was completely undecided not only on type of college but also area of study at the beginning of the process. She landed on large, urban, east coast, but she still didn’t have a clue what she wanted to study. During the first semester, she was both housed and in classes with a group of undecided kids who also met regularly in a class for undecided kids. They went through many ways to make a decision - they kept a process of elimination chart, there were presentations from many departments, etc. She got very excited about architecture after hearing a presentation from an architecture professor. This is an area my family knows absolutely nothing about - we don’t know any architects, no idea what the work is like, etc. But she loved the presentation, she met with an advisor to map out a program, etc. This semester she is taking three architecture classes (two different kinds of studio and one history) and even 8am Calculus (I thought she was so traumatized by her high school calculus class that she would never take it again!). She is doing a one month architecture abroad in Barcelona this May, and the program includes a semester abroad in Madrid that is specific to architecture students. They graduate with almost enough hours (through the two 6 month co-ops) to be licensed in Massachusetts. In other words . . . there is a strong chance she could graduate with a job and a career. WOW! Let’s see how it goes at the end of the semester, but so far so good!
If she was reading this she would be aghast that I never mentioned the most important part of Northeastern. She is a huge hockey fan (and doesn’t care about football - she is tickled that Northeastern doesn’t have football because more sports energy gets devoted to hockey). Northeastern beat Harvard (her sister’s school) in the recent women’s beanpot matchup and we will never hear the end of it.
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