<p>sure you don’t HAVE to be in the military to know those acronyms but to an extent some military terms are common knowledge. Most people know what ROTC, MIA, AWOL mean… the Ivies, Penn included, as well as Stanford and MIT are essentially the AWOL’s and MIA’s of college common knowledge.</p>
<p>this argument is counterproductive anyways, it’s way off topic…</p>