Senioritis
The College Application
Financial Aid
Standardized Tests
NC Colleges
100

This designated day is infamous for students not attending regularly scheduled classes.

What is senior skip day?

100

The online platform that a student can use to apply to multiple colleges.

What is the Common Application? 

100

This application must be submitted to receive a financial aid package. 

What is the FAFSA?

100

During the junior year of high school, many students take this exam.

What is the ACT?

100

A community college established in 1967 located in Clinton, NC.




What is Sampson Community College?

200

On this day, seniors attending college determine where they will go to school.

What is decision day?

200

The record that shows a student's work, showing courses taken and grades achieved.

What is a transcript?

200

This is the earliest date that you can submit the FAFSA.

What is October 1?

200

This is the minimum ACT score required by North Carolina state schools for admission.

What is 17?

200

A public college in Fayetteville, NC which is part of the UNC system. Their mascot is the Broncos.



What is Fayetteville State University?

300

This dance celebrates the end of the school year and is NOT typically found in colleges.

What is prom?

300

The week in which some colleges will offer application fee waiver opportunities.

What is College Application Week?

300

College students often refer to this as "free money". 

What is a scholarship?

300

This is the minimum SAT score required by North Carolina state schools for admission.

What is 880?

300

A small, private liberal arts college whose total enrollment is 1800, and students live all four years on campus.




What is Davidson University?

400

This event characterizes students and graduates gathering for a dance and IS typically found at colleges.

What is homecoming?

400

If a student applies for this deadline and is admitted, the student is committed to attending that college. 

What is Early Decision?

400

This is the money a student will have to pay back after graduation.

What is a loan? 

400

For highly selective universities, these tests are required to supplement your application.

What are SAT subject tests?

400

A public university located by the NC coast which is part of the UNC system. Their mascot is the Seahawks.




What is UNC Wilmington?

500

This is the date that you must commit to a college. 

What is May 1st?

500

All applications include a fee, unless you complete one of these.

What is a fee waiver?

500

This is the document that determines whether a student will receive in-state or out-of-state tuition at an NC public university.

What is the RDS? 

500

This process maximizes students' scores when standardized tests are taken more than once.

What is superscoring?

500

A private HBCU found in Charlotte, NC whose mascot is the Golden Bulls. It was known as Biddle University in the past, and then later renamed by Jane Berry Smith to honor her late husband.


What is Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU)?

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