Heaven forbid you call a spring admit a spring admit. Freshman entering the university in the spring semester will no longer by subjected to the tyranny of accurate identifiers.

Anna Sturla reports for the Daily Californian:

More inclusive term to replace “spring admit” descriptor for campus January admits

In a bid to make the campus more inclusive, the admissions office will no longer use the phrase “spring admits” to refer to incoming freshmen admitted for the spring semester.

The reason for dropping the term “spring admit” hinges on preventing those students who fall under the term from feeling “that their admission was significantly different,” according to Amy Jarich, assistant vice chancellor and director of undergraduate admissions. Certain students are admitted for spring because of a lack of sufficient space for them in the fall.

Jarich said that the “spring admit” label made some students feel disconnected from the main campus because they did not apply for the spring-admission option.

“Most of your life on campus is very similar to someone who is taking their classes on campus,” she said, adding that students in the Fall Program for Freshmen, or FPF — an academic program offered to spring-admission students through UC Berkeley Extension — “lived on campus, went to classes, went to football games.”

In the admissions email sent to spring-admission students, three options are presented to “January start” students for the fall semester: FPF; a semester off to work, travel or take community college classes; or Global Edge, a new study abroad program for freshmen.