Anonymous wrote:ORM -over represented minority who won’t get a college admission break like a URM (Hispanics, blacks, first to college, states underrepresented like North Dakota, etc)

While not always, it usually refers to Asian kids.

Hook - something that makes you a more attractive candidate and enhances admissions chances because it fills a schools needs.

Usually means recruitable athlete (they must fill teams and some care about fielding winning teams), national academic competition wins etc

Anonymous wrote:EC= extra curriculars?

yes

EC= extra curriculars?

Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford=HYPS

If you want to learn more about CTCL, see their website:

https://ctcl.org/about/

They do excellent talks around the country. Bring your child. Even if their schools are not for you/your child, their approach to the whole college search is very healthy.

Some colleges may try to "protect their yield" by rejecting highly qualified candidates whom they think will not ultimately enroll --- instead preferring to accept students more likely to choose their school because it's the student's best/first choice.

Go hang out on College Confidential. Read. Read. Read.

Importance of yield -low yield means most accepted candidates picked a different school, normally a better school (not all the time if fit of program is what u r after than school ranking)

ORM -over represented minority who won’t get a college admission break like a URM (Hispanics, blacks, first to college, states underrepresented like North Dakota, etc)

Ok my oldest is just getting into the stage where I need to learn a few things...I've figured out some of them (please correct me if I'm wrong)

URM=underrepresented minority
SLAC=small liberal arts college
CTCL=colleges that change lives (small...colleges?)

I dont' know:

ORM
what the importance of the yeild is...

and a bunch of other abbreviations. If you could just point me to a link, (or post a list here) I'd appreciate it!

Thank you