High School
Financial Aid
College
College Requirements
Wild Card
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A course you have to complete before taking a higher level course

Prerequesite

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What is financial Aid?

Application to receive money to pay for college

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What does CSU stand for?

California State University

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What is one of the test required for college admission?

ACT or SAT

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What is the financial aid application that undocumented students fill out?

DREAM Act

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What do you earn when getting a good grade in your high school courses

Credits or Units

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You must reapply to FAFSA every year? True or False

True

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What does UC stand for?

University of California?

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What grades do you need in order to be college eligible?

C and above

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Only wealthy people go to college? True or False

False

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California State Law requires students to pass two years of this class in order to graduate

Physical Education

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What type of aid does FAFSA give you?

Grants, loans and work study

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What is considered or what do you call a two-year college?

Community College

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What do you call activities that you can do after school?

Extracurricular activities

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Undocumented students can only receive what type of money/grant?

State money
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This number represents the total of points for the letter grades you received divided by the number of classes you took

GPA

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When do you start your Financial aid application?

Senior year

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You get an Bachelor degree from UC & CSU? True or False

True

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Colleges look at your Marking Period grades? True or False

False

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If you're off track to graduate, how can you recover credit?

Night school or summer school

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A record of all the classes you have taken and the grades you received for them

Transcript

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What does FAFSA stand for?

Free Application for Federal Student Aid

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If you attend a 2 year college what degree would you eventually earn?

Associates Degree

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What is one thing that colleges look at in your applications?

GPA, SAT/ACT Scores, extracurricular activities, personal statement

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Number of credits required to graduate high school?

230 credits

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