College Prep 101
What else do colleges consider aside from academics?
What are extracurriculars?
This prestigious international award recognizes outstanding achievements in fields like physics, literature, peace, and medicine.
What is the Nobel Prize?
This area of medical science focuses on the study and treatment of diseases in animals, which can also impact human health.
What is veterinary medicine?
Many art programs require students to submit this as part of the college application process.
What is a portfolio/audition?
This law states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transferred or transformed.
The standardized test commonly used for college admissions in the United States.
What is the ACT/SAT/CLT?
This AP course, ideal for future history majors, examines the U.S. government through topics like constitutionalism, liberty, order, and civic participation in a democracy.
What is AP U.S. Government and Politics?
This class gives students a deep dive into the study of living organisms and ecosystems, and is often a prerequisite for more advanced biology classes in college.
What is AP Environmental Science?
What is the study of how music is structured and composed, typically a course music programs include to teach students to read and analyze written music?
What is music theory?
These two brothers are most known for being credited for the creating of the world's first successful airplane.
Who are the Wright brothers?
What is a rigorous course that offers the possibility of college credit?
What is AP (Advanced Placement)/Dual Enrollment?
This history or anthropology-based career focuses on collecting, assessing, and preserving historically significant records, including documents, photos, films, and digital archives.
What is an archivist?
This software is often used to analyze data, create graphs, and perform statistical calculations in scientific research.
What is excel?
The style of music that originated in the 1920s and includes improvisation and swing rhythms
What is jazz?
This famous engineer (and artist) was known for his engineering, innovative architectural works, and famous paintings during the Renaissance.
What is an early admission program where students apply to one school and must attend if accepted?
What is Early Decision?
This dystopian novel warns of a society where books are burned to control knowledge.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
What is AP Calculus (AB and/or BC)?
This type of scholarship is awarded to students based on artistic or musical talent rather than academic achievement.
What is a merit-based or talent-based scholarship?
The lever, inclined plane, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley and screw all fall under this category.
What is a simple machine?
What financial aid program provides need-based grants, loans, and work-study opportunities for U.S. students?
What is the FAFSA?
This president, known for his conservation efforts, expanded national parks and negotiated the Panama Canal treaty.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This interdisciplinary major combines biology with technology, leading to careers in biotechnology, medical devices, and health sciences.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
This art movement, known for its bold colors and emotional expression, includes artists like Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch.
This type of engineer designs and analyzes the structural support systems of buildings, bridges, and other structures to ensure their safety, stability, and integrity.
What is a structural engineer?