College Admissions
The document that shows your grades and amount of credits you have earned?
What is a "transcript"?
Free money given to students to use for college because the student has good grades, talents, achievements, and/or community service.
What is a "scholarship"?
What university in Texas coined the phrase "Hook Em' Horns"?
What are the on-campus living facilities called?
What are "dorms/residence halls"?
Courses you can take in high school that allow you to earn college credits.
What are "AP or Dual Credit"?
This is a document or series of documents you must complete to see if you will be accepted into a college.
What is a college "application"?
Money that is lent to a student to help pay for college that must be paid back when a student graduates or stops going to college.
What is a "student loan"?
What is the mascot for Texas State University?
What is a "bobcat"?
An undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course of study that generally lasts four years.
What is a "Bachelor's Degree"?
The two college entrance exams that colleges may require you to take in order to determine admittance.
What are "SAT and ACT"?
A letter that a person (usually a teacher, counselor, boss) will write for you, telling the college about your work habits, skills, and achievements.
What is a "letter of recommendation"?
The application filled out by the student and sent to the government and colleges that is used to determine how much aid a student will receive.
What is the "FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid"?
What is the official greeting of Texas A&M University- College Station?
What is "Howdy!"?
A subject or field of study chosen by a college student.
What is a "major"?
What is "GPA"?
What is it called when you go out into the community to help and serve others? Colleges look for this in applications.
What is "community service"?
Free money given to students based on financial need.
What is a "grant"?
Stephen F. Austin State University is located in the oldest town in Texas. What is the name of the town?
What is "Nacogdoches"?
An opportunity at some universities and colleges that allow students to go out of the country to take classes is...
What is "study abroad"?
This exam is mostly a practice version of the SAT®, but it can also lead to more money for college. The highest 11th grade performers on this exam are eligible to earn scholarships.
What is the "PSAT"?
Students who graduate in the top _____% of their class will automatically be accepted into most 4 year public universities or colleges in the state of Texas.
What is "10"?
Type of financial aid offered to a student where a student will work on campus to earn their aid.
What is "work study"?
The oldest college in the United States is...
What is "Harvard"?
Something required as a prior condition for something else to happen. (A lower level class must be taken to take higher level class….example: Biology 1 before Biology 2)
What is a "prerequisite"?
What is a measure of how a student performs compared to the of the class? It is determined by GPA and the type of classes taken.
What is "class rank"?