College Confidential

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CollegeConfidential.com, Inc. (CC) is a college admissions counseling company founded in 2001. It hosts popular college admissions forums on topics such as admissions chances, financial aid, standardized testing and school life.

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[edit] History

College Confidential was founded to "demystify many aspects of the college admissions process, and to help even 'first timer' students and parents understand the process." An editorial team, consisting of Dave Berry, a senior admissions officer, David Hawsey, and Roger Dooley, a parent who is active in high school academics, supply visitors with college admissions content.[1]

[edit] College Confidential Forums

The College Confidential Forum represents the most heavily used part of the site. It features a very active 'What Are My Chances?' subforum, where users are evaluated on their chances of acceptance to specific colleges based on their test scores, GPA, and extracurricular activities[2]. There are also various other subforums regarding financial aid[3], SAT, ACT and AP test preparation[4], forums for each of the universities in the Ivy League[5], as well as for the nation's top research universities and liberal arts colleges[6].

The forum also contains several subforums for casual conversations. There is a Parents Cafe[7], subforums dedicated to high school[8] and college life[9], and a College Confidential Cafe[10]. Posts made in the cafes do not count towards users' total post count.

[edit] College Confidential Language

There are certain acronyms[11] that users of CC are familiar with and often cause confusion to new users. Here is a list of popular acronyms:

  • CC = College Confidential/Community College
  • D = Daughter
  • S = Son
  • adcom = admissions committe member/admissions committee
  • AA = affirmative action
  • URM = under represented minority (African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, etc)
  • EC = extracurricular activities
  • HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT (the colleges that many CCers apsire to attend)
  • LAC = Liberal Arts College
  • EA = Early Action
  • ED = Early Decision
  • RD = Regular Decision
  • OP = Original Poster
  • IMO/IMHO = In My Opinion/In My Humble Opinion
  • IIRC = If I Recall Correctly

[edit] References

  1. ^ College Confidential - About
  2. ^ What Are My Chances?
  3. ^ Financial Aid & Scholarships
  4. ^ SAT and ACT Tests & Test Preparation
  5. ^ Ivy League
  6. ^ Colleges and Universities
  7. ^ Parent Cafe
  8. ^ High School Life
  9. ^ College Life
  10. ^ College Confidential Cafe
  11. ^ CC Acronyms