Schools 101
School Types
Admissions 101
School Characteristics
Schools 102
100
This institute of music is located in Pennsylvania.
What is the Curtis Institute of Music?
100
An institution of higher education supported by taxes or other public funds.
What is a public school?
100
A process by which colleges review and make decisions about applications as they are received. The application cycle usually opens in the early fall and may extend into the spring or until the freshman class is filled.
What is rolling admissions?
100
An academic period of a period of about 16 weeks. Two of these make up an academic year.
What is a semester?
100
Steve Jobs attended this school and took a calligraphy class there that later influenced his work at Apple.
What is Reed College?
200
This famous public research university's mascot is the Bruin bear.
What is UCLA?
200
An institution of higher education not supported by taxes. The school may be independent or church-related.
What is a private school?
200
The practice of reviewing an applicant’s file and making an admissions decision without regard to the student’s ability to pay.
What is need-blind admissions?
200
A school that has a student population of over 20,000 students.
What is a large school?
200
U.S. Presidents Bush (both of them) and Clinton attended the law school at this university, which has a residential college system.
What is Yale?
300
President Obama was a lecturer in the school of law at this university.
What is the University of Chicago?
300
An academic program that includes the sciences, social sciences, languages, arts, and mathematics, as distinguished from professional or vocational programs that focus on training for specific careers such as engineering, business, and nursing.
What is the liberal arts?
300
An application process that typically allows a student to apply by November 1 or November 15 and receive a decision by December 15 that does not bind the student to attend if admitted.
What is Early Action?
300
Required classes that students take in order to graduate.
What are General Education Requirements?
300
At this university, you can study in French, English, or both.
What is the University of Ottawa?
400
This school in New York is known for its Core Curriculum program, where all students must read the same list of books.
What is Columbia University?
400
A school that has three connected missions: research, public service, and teaching undergraduate and graduate students.
What is a research university?
400
An application process that typically allows a student to apply by November 1 or November 15 and receive a decision by December 15 that commits the student to attend if admitted.
What is Early Decision?
400
An academic calendar period of about 3 weeks, where students study one course at a time, full time.
What is the block plan?
400
This university is located in Vancouver, Canada.
What is UBC?
500
This school has an Arctic Studies program amongst its offerings.
What is Bowdoin?
500
The joining of several colleges and universities within close geographical proximity to share resources.
What is a consortium?
500
An essay in which the applicant can go into more detail about themselves.
What is a personal statement?
500
An academic calendar comprised of 2 semesters and a shorter, usually 1-month period in between the semesters.
What is the 4-1-4 plan?
500
This university, located in Squamish, Canada, operates on the block plan.
What is Quest University.
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