College Lingo
Your main course of study while in college.
What is a Major?
The amount the college/university is charging you for your classes
What is Tuition?
A numeric value that is determined by your overall average grades
What is gpa (grade point average)?
A short written description of your education, qualifications, and previous employment, which you send to an employer
What is a Resumé?
The process you have to complete if you fail graduation required classes
What is Credit Recovery?
At most 4-year schools, you need 120 or more of these to graduate
What are college credits?
The form that you need to fill out to get any financial aid from the federal government and is used by colleges to determine financial aid offers
What is the FAFSA?
Name two of three college entrance exams
What are the ACT & SAT & TSI?
A person who knows you and is willing to describe and usually praise you to support you when you are trying to get a job; a statement as to a person's character or ability
What is a Reference?
What are the 4 names of the RTCC counseling team?
Wright, Sanchez, Stubblefield, Brown
When a student takes college classes in a different country?
What is Study Abroad?
A program that allows students to earn money to help pay educational expenses.
What is Work-study?
An event you can attend to ask questions directly to college representatives
What is a College Fair?
A letter sent with a resume to introduce oneself and explain interest in a job.
What is a Cover Letter?
How many major Senior events are in Semester 1?
There are 4
A document your professor will give you to explain assignments, expectations, grading systems, textbooks, and class policies
What is a Syllabus?
The cost of dorms or other living arrangements
What is room and board?
Activities performed by students that falls outside the realm of the normal school curriculum
What are extracurricular activities?
A two-year public school that offers affordable higher education typically consisting of certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees.
What is a Community College?
Name at least 2 of the major Senior events in Semester 1.
Community Service Project, Treats for Complete, Skyhawk Palooza, and College March.
A required class or course that has to be taken before you can enter a certain class
What is a Pre-requisite?
Name both types of the federal student loans that are available to college students
Subsidized and unsubsidized. Subsidized does NOT start accruing interest while you're in college, unsibsidized does.
The rate at which a given college admits applicants
What is acceptance rate?
A post-high school institution that teaches specific manual and industrial crafts like welding, automotive repair, HVAC maintenance, and electrical work.
What is a Trade/Vocational School?
What is the Uplift Education program that gives free money to graduates who completed certain activities, events, or tasks each year they were at Summit?
Learn & Earn
Name ALL 5 types of higher education degrees
What is Associate, Bachelors, Masters, Graduate & Doctorate.
Name ALL 4 of the main types of college financial aid for students?
What are Grants, scholarship, work study, student loans?
A policy when colleges don't require you to submit standardized test scores
What is test-optional?
A higher education school that is more targeted in their learning & offers certificate and diploma programs in fields like health informatics, culinary arts, cosmetology, and information technology.
What is a Technical College?
Who is Summit's designated Alumni Success Team Counselor?
Annie Acosta