Student Life
This is the area of study that you focus on in college.
What is a major or concentration?
This online application platform is used by over 900 colleges and universities.
What is the Common Application?
Perfect scores on the SAT and ACT
What are 1600 and 36?
This is money that does not need to be paid back.
What is a scholarship or grant?
These fun and philanthropic groups have words like alpha and zeta in them.
What are sororities and fraternities?
These are non-binding application pathways.
What are Early Action, Priority, and Regular Decision?
This test is used for qualification for the National Merit Scholarship program.
What is the junior year PSAT?
This is money that needs to be paid back with interest.
What is a loan?
This is typically the type of housing found on college campuses.
What are residence halls?
This is a binding application pathway that means "if you accept me, I will go."
What is Early Decision?
This is an admissions test policy that means you do not need to submit an SAT or ACT score, but it may have stricter requirements in other catergories.
What is Test-Optional?
This is the free application for federal tuition aid.
What is the FAFSA?
Name a college that has one of these unique mascots:
Anteaters, Banana Slugs, Rainbow Warriors, Stormy Petrels
UC Irvine (Anteaters), UC Santa Cruz (Banana Slugs), University of Hawaii (Rainbow Warriors), Oglethorpe University (Stormy Petrels)
True or False: You can only apply Early Action to one school.
False! Early Action is non-binding and does not limit how many other schools you can apply to in the Early Action round. Restrictive Early Action, only found at a small number of highly selective schools, does limit how many and what kind of schools you can apply to in the early round.
Scores from these tests go directly to the registrar at your college/university and may help you place in a higher level class or skip a course requirement.
What are Advanced Placement (AP) exams?
This type of aid is based upon your family's financial situation.
What is need-based aid?
This is the place that you go if you want to practice your interview skills.
What is the career center?
This is the national reply deadline-when all colleges and universities require students to decide on their matriculating school.
What is May 1st?
This is a (relatively new) testing policy that means you cannot send your scores to be reviewed for admission, even if you wanted to.
What is Test Blind?
This type of aid typically does not take into account your family's financial situation and is based on your academic record.
What is merit-based aid?