College Lingo
This is where many college students live during their first year.
What is a dorm?
Money given to a student based on academic performance. This award does not have to be paid back.
What is a scholarship?
This type of college offers two-year degrees (associates' degrees).
What is a community college?
The recommended month that you should have all of your applications, transcripts, and letters of recommendation turned in to colleges.
What is November?
These optional classes in high school can earn you college credit if you pass the exam.
What are AP (Advanced Placement) classes?
These Greek-letter organizations focus on brotherhood or sisterhood and service.
What is a fraternity or a sorority?
This type of college is funded by the state government.
What is a public college?
The season of the year that most college acceptance letters get mailed to students.
This person at your high school helps you plan your HS classes and talk about your college goals.
What is a counselor/academic counselor/college counselor?
Institutions that tend to be higher in price but that usually have different scholarships/funds to help with the cost of attendance.
What are private schools?
This type of college is funded by private organizations and not run by the state government.
What is a private college?
This document, written your senior year, on your college application, tells colleges about who you are beyond grades.
What is a personal statement or essay?
The classes required for college admission and taken in high school are listed as ___ - _____ requirements.
What is A-G?
True or False: Public universities are always cheaper than private colleges.
What is False? (It depends on scholarships and financial aid!)
This group of eight private universities in the Northeastern United States is known for academic excellence, selective admissions, historic campuses, and athletic competition in an NCAA Division I conference of the same name.
What are Ivy League Universities?
The month that most students need to commit to a college and send in your deposit.
What is May?
This document tells colleges about your grades and classes taken in high school.
What is a transcript?
This term refers to a student’s chosen field of academic study.
What is a major?
The name of the financial aid form that students must fill out their senior year and every year in college to receive financial aid.
What is the FAFSA?
This type of advanced academic program, pursued after earning a bachelor’s degree, includes master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees such as an MBA or PHD.
What is graduate school?
A form of admission that students use for their top pick school that allows them to find out early if they were accepted or not. This form of admissions is binding!
What is Early Decision?
This is a standardized exam that high school students take which is widely used for college admissions in the United States, measuring skills in reading, writing, and math.
What is the SAT or ACT?