What is grants are money you don't have to repay and are usually based on your financial need while loans are money you borrow that you must pay back, usually with interest costs.
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The oldest college in the U.S.
What is Harvard
100
Name two tools colleges use to help determine your family’s ability to pay for college.
What is the FAFSA and CSS Profile
100
Offers students a broad knowledge of the wider world (e.g. science, culture, and society) as well as in-depth study in a specific field
What is a liberal arts education
200
The difference between match and fit
What is: match refers to a college or university’s academic suitability for a student. Fit extends beyond purely academic considerations to encompass the student’s academic, financial, personal, and social needs.
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True or False: You will be required to fill out the FASFA every year you are in college
What is TRUE
200
Name 4 colleges from our Noonan recommended college list that are test-optional
What is: Bates, Bowdoin, College of the Holy Cross, Franklin and Marshall College, Mount Holyoke College, Pitzer, Smith, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
200
This tool is available on a college’s or university’s website and allow prospective students to enter information about themselves to find out what students like them paid to attend the institution in the previous year, after taking grants and scholarship aid into account.
What is Net Price Calculator
200
Name 2 of the 4 commonly used approaches to avoid we discussed about the college essay
What is predictable, sentimental, simple, and melodramatic.
300
Percentage of admission chances for a unlikely, reach, possible, and likely
What is unlikely (5%), reach (25%), possible (50%), likely (80%)
300
What date does the FASFA open?
What is October 1st
300
The main difference between public and private colleges
What is What is funding. Public colleges are funded mostly by state governments, whereas private colleges rely heavily on tuition, endowment, and donations from alumni and friends
300
If your parents are divorced, separated, or were never married (and are not living together), your noncustodial parent will be required to complete this form
What is the Noncustodial PROFILE
300
Students with this mindset believe that people are born with a certain amount of intelligence, and they can’t do much to change that. These students focus on looking smart over learning, see effort as a sign of low ability, and wilt in the face of a challenge.
What is fixed mindset
400
The registration deadline for the October 7 SAT
What is September 8
400
When you fill out the FASFA you will be using income and tax information from what year
What is 2016
400
Name two colleges on the Noonan recommended college list that are in Massachusetts and have religious affiliations
What is Boston College and College of the Holy Cross
400
What does EFC stand for and what does it mean?
What is Expected family contribution - Measure of what a family is expected to contribute over a year (Parent + Student)
400
The form you have to fill out to apply for college financial aid from the federal government
A.FASFA (Free Application for Student Federal Aid)
B.FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
C. Government College Aid Form
D. FASA – Financial Application for Student Aid
What is B, FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
500
How many college application fee waivers can you get from the CollegeBoard
What is 4. If you registered for and took the SAT or one of the SAT Subject Tests using a fee waiver, you are automatically eligible to receive four college application fee waivers.
500
What does CSS Profile stand for
What is College Scholarship Service Profile
500
How many Ivy League schools are there. Name each of them.
What is 8. Yale University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Cornell University.
500
How many fee waivers do you get from the CollegeBoard for the CSS Profile?
What is up to 8
500
This is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records
What is FERPA (Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act)