College Admission Terms That Annoy Me

Pretty direct, huh? Well, I had been working on some post-November 1 reflections, but then November came and went. One of my takeaways was to discuss trends that I wish weren’t actually trending and I realized there were some recurring themes that were mostly centered around semantics. There are certain admissions terms that I would prefer to eliminate from our vocabulary. They are typically used by applicants or people not directly involved with admissions. Perhaps they are just words, but considering that I never hear AO’s saying most of these terms, there are lessons that can be learned when we use the proper or alternative terminology.