College Lingo
Your main course of study in college
What is a Major?
The two college entrance exams
Bonus: Where can you register to take the exams?
What is the ACT & SAT?
Bonus: collegeboard.com or www.act.org
The amount the college/university is charging you for your classes
What is Tuition?
a written description of one's achievements, interests, etc., included as part of an application for a job or to an educational program.
What is a personal statement?
Two non-college options that could help pay for college/ make college less expensive.
What is trade school, military, and/or an AmeriCorps position?
A set of courses that often complements your major?
What is a Minor/Concentration
An event you can attend to ask questions directly to college representatives.
What is a College Fair?
A program that allows students to earn money to help pay educational expenses.
What is Workstudy?
A general application used by seniors and accepted by nearly 700 colleges
What is the Common Application?
A job that is available to people without degrees and/or experience
What is entry-level jobs?
Something your professor will give you to explain assignments, expectations, grading systems, textbooks, and class policies
What is a Syllabus?
The difference between a college application fee waiver and an SAT fee waiver
An SAT fee waiver allows you to register for the SAT or an SAT Subject Test free of charge. A college application fee waiver allows you to apply to college without paying an application fee.
The average student's loan debt after graduation Within $10,000.
What is $37,172?
Form to apply for financial aid for college or graduate school.
Bonus: How Often do you need to fill out a FASFA?
What is FASFA? (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
Bonus: At least once a year
Hands-on training to prepare students for a specific job/skill
What is a trade/ technical school?
Someone who helps you plan your classes and connect you with resources on campus as needed?
What is an Advisor?
Bonus: How often should you meet with your Advisor?
How often CB tries to go on College Visits. (Not every High School goes on every college visit)
Once a month.
Where you can go to look for scholarship opportunities
Bonus: You do not need to pay back scholarship money, what is another way you can get money that you do not have to pay back
What is online searches, school counselor, university website, local businesses, CB College Prep?
Bonus: What is a grant?
People you can ask to write your recommendation letter.
Bonus: Who should you not ask to write your recommendation letters
What are teachers, employers, CB employees, other adults in clubs you are in?
Bonus: Friends/Family with no professional experience with you.
Examples of well-paying jobs that you do not need a degree for.
Bonus: What might you need instead of a degree?
What is Hospitality work (waitress, bartender, restaurant manager), trade work (welding, plumbing)
Bonus: Experience
The person who creates a comfortable, safe, and supportive atmosphere for residents in student housing.
Who is an RA?
What are the two types of federal student loans and the difference between those two types?
What is subsidized and unsubsidized? Subsidized does not start accruing interest while you're in college, unsibsidized does.
A "record" of a student's academic progress, including all courses taken, grades, completion for each course, and GPA.
What is a transcript?
Someone who has created their own business and/or products.
What is an entrepreneur?