Looking at Colleges
Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots
General Terminology
Marist Knowledge
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100
This is a school where your academic and extracurricular level is an equal match to the school's expectations.
What is a target school?
100
The prefix (pre-) means this.
What is before?
100
This is the term for a student whose parents did not complete a four-year college program (generally).
What is a first generation student?
100
This is the classification for Marist's size.
What is a medium-sized school?
100
This is the big, goofy 7'4 center who graduated from Marist and ended up playing in the NBA.
Who is Rik Smits?
200
This is a school where your academic and extracurricular exceed the school's expectations.
What is a solid (safety) school?
200
This is the overarching term for a part of a word (example: a prefix, root word, or suffix).
What is a morpheme?
200
This is the type of degree that your undergraduate college degree ends with.
What is a bachelor's degree?
200
This is Marist's mascot.
What is the red fox?
200
Before teaching at CIP, Mr. Smith worked at this college.
What is Hofstra University?
300
This is a school where your academic and extracurricular level is lower than a school's expectations.
What is a reach school?
300
The suffix (-logy) most nearly means this.
What is the study of?
300
The odd status between accepted and rejected to college is called this.
What is deferred?
300
This is the average GPA for the Marist class of 2018.
What is 3.33 – 4.0 (88%-93%)
300
This is Mr. Smith's college mascot.
What is a stag? (Deer does not count)
400
Angie is applying to Marist. She has a 2.8 GPA and has played basketball and written for the school newspaper for 3 years. For her, applying to Marist would likely be classified as this.
What is a reach school?
400
The prefix (ab-) most nearly means this.
What is away from?
400
In your college planning, effective planning uses this directional idea.
What is backwards planning?
400
With 23% of Marist students, this major is the most popular at Marist.
What is Business/Marketing?
400
This is the meaning of the prefix (un-)
What is not, against, opposite?
500
Marist's SAT test-taking policy can be classified as this.
What is optional?
500
The prefix (trans-) most nearly means this.
What is across?
500
This is a college admissions department’s measure of whether or not they should accept you into their college
What is admissibility?
500
Please correctly spell the town in which Marist is.
What is Poughkeepsie?
500
This is the price that Marist costs per year (in-state and out-of-state costs are the same).
What is $32,500?
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