College Terms
Your main area of study in college is...
Major
Contra Costa College is what type of college
Community college and/or 2 year college
A-G Requirement: How many years of English are required?
4 years
Private Colleges are ALWAYS more expensive than public schools (T/F)
False! They can be but they can also be cheaper (sometimes they have more financial aid they can give to)
#1 thing that colleges look at
Grades, GPA, and/or the classes you take (how rigorous are they)
HBCU stands for...
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
List 3 University of California (UC) campuses
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
UC Riverside
UC Merced
Science
Clubs, sports, summer programs, and volunteer work are all a type of...
Extracurricular activity
A trade is...
A job that requires advanced training and education, but not necessarily from a 4-year year college. Can be trained through a community college, trade school, or apprenticeship.
College with a Banana Slug mascot
UC Santa Cruz
GPA minimum requirement for CSUs
2.5 UC/CSU GPA
There are this many CSU campuses
23
Financial Aid is...
Money given/loaned to students by the federal gov, state gov, and college to help them pay for their education.
List the 3 closest CSUs to Invictus
CSU East Bay
San Francisco State
CSU Maritime
GPA minimum requirement for UCs
3.0 UC/CSU GPA
The UC that is only for graduate students (students who already earned their bachelors degree and are continuing their education)
UC San Francisco
ACT and SAT
a student who is working on getting there bachelors degree (4 year degree)
Name 3 "Ivy League" Colleges
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale
College Seminar fulfills what A-G requirement...
G: College Prep Class
You can do three things at a community college...
1) Get an associates degree, 2) get credits then transfer to a 4 year college, 3) get certificates for trades