architects as "architects," and licensed professionals as "registered architects." As long as we are being honest with our clients, (and young professionals are honest about their level of experience) all is clear. I am bothered by the fact that educated recent grads in architecture get less respect than graduates in other fields, particularly when many of us have had office and/or construction experience (internships) during our years of schooling. As a profession, we should be supporting our graduates of accredited programs, by giving them the opportunity to be addressed as respected young professionals. I disagree with the assertion that the requirements of IDP and the computerized test CAUSE a longer time period from graduation to licensure. This was the system I became licensed under and found that it makes it easier to delay, and easier to procrastinate, but it does not CAUSE us to take longer. Regarding the term for interns, I agree that term is confusing. I also agree with most other posters here that the term Architect should remain for licensed architects only. We have enough trouble garnering respect in our society for what we do, that any reduction in standards for what that title means would be shooting ourselves in the (collective) foot. If anything, we need to increase the standards for what it means to be an Architect in order to bring back some of the respect for our profession that it had in earlier centuries. The closest professional example we have for what to call