<p>“cast a wide net”</p>
<p>“your mileage may vary” (or YMMV)</p>
<p>It’s true that a lot of this is corporate lingo, which no one I know would be caught dead using, IRL.</p>
<p>And my most disliked CC phrase-- “sigh” at the beginning of a post, which generally means that “the poster before me is an idiot, but I’m too polite and long suffering to say so.”</p>
<p>Those abbreviated words are great for those of us who are slow typists and hate to type. Sociologists could have fun with this site- a reflection of several subsets of our society and their interactions. PhD material?</p>
<p>No only do I use “no dog in this fight” in real life, I also say “that dog won’t hunt” for bad ideas. Maybe that could catch on here?</p>
<p>I use many CC phrases in real life and now my friends and family use them as well. “Love they safety” has become the guiding phrase of future college searches for every one of them!</p>
<p>I have seen in some of the IVY admissions results threads:</p>
<p>“Anit-hook” used by some Asian applicants.</p>
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<p>This is priceless (no pun intended). H & I will remember this one when writing tuition check. We can smile through our tears ;)</p>
<p>My post #25 has a bad typo. :rolleyes:
It should have said ANTI-hook.</p>
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said by . . . . pugmadkate. That put a smile on my face for a moment or two.</p>
<p>Garland, I totally agree. When I see that <em>sigh</em> beginning, it sounds very condescending.</p>
<p>Coureur pointed to the word usage that most puts my teeth on edge. It’s the over-use of the word “amazing”. Almost everyone has an “amazing” essay. I’m sure some of the essays are excellent, even riveting. I’m equally sure most of them range from good down to tedious. Shakespeare is amazing.</p>
<p>wis75, I think an anthropologist might enjoy observing and documenting this CC subculture.</p>
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<p>Maybe so but fat lot of good it would do him. Yale EA would be huge reach even for Shakespeare.</p>
<p>^ Right. Comedies, tragedies, histories? Serious lack of focus. No varsity sport, no leadership. Without a major hook nobody’s disclosed, like URM status, he’d be sub-par for HYPSM and AWSP too. Maybe WUSTL as a reach? Or Macalester (flyover land, to be sure, but with an artsy laid-back vibe and a slightly lower COA than its NESCAC peers.) Mac admits a high percentage of internationals and might even offer him some merit.</p>
<p>Another good fit: Bard.</p>
<p>The three As:Awful, Average, Awesome.
Adcoms
EA
ED
CDS
COHFE
FAFSA
CSS
finaid
full fare
full ride
helicopter parent
Ivies
merit money
late bloomer
overachiever
passion
SCEA
Top Tier
underachiever
Xiggi method (where else but on CC?)</p>
<p>full freight
total COA
COA
competitive admissions</p>
<p>Shakespeare could not get into Yale because his only vague EC would be writing and it’s not really something one can prove on a college app – he could be writing in a journal, or writing, well, Shakespeare, but it doesn’t translate well onto an application unless, of course, he’s been published. After all, he’s not doing research, not doing verifiable community service, not performing in Carnegie Hall, not playing three varsity sports and an Olympic contender in one of them, etc. And Einstein could probably not get into Princeton and so forth. This is actually what bothers me most about the college admissions game – that there are kids whose biggest EC and biggest contribution to society really should be thinking and reading and following their burning curiosity – but that just doesn’t translate well into a college application.</p>
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<p>Actually, the real Einstein did in fact fail to get into college the first time he applied. He failed his entrance exam and had to take a gap year and get more high school-level schooling.</p>
<p>positioning through your essays
At the risk of sounding like a broken record</p>
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<p>Mrs. Einstein told him and told him to use the Xiggi method to prep for the entrance exam but he just blew her off. WHY won’t they listen?!</p>
<p>I bet Einstein had to pay his parents some rent during his gap year, and they told him “my house my rules”.</p>
<p>I was actually just thinking the other day about how much “I don’t have a dog in this fight” shows up on CC. I’ve never heard it uttered in real life and have only seen it appear two or three times on various other forums over the years.</p>
<p>HYPSM
WUSTL
sexiled
frats
binge drinking
rushing (not to the grocery store)
engineering is a tough major</p>