Types of Colleges
A type of college that provides more support and awards certificates, licenses and associates degrees.
What is a community college?
A two-year degree offered specifically at community colleges.
What is an associates degree?
What does COA stand for?
Cost of Attendance
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
True or False. And why? College guarantees success.
False. Success depends on a person. By learning from failures and moving forward.
A type of school that awards bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees.
What is a university?
What is a bachelor's degree?
No. Grants and Scholarships
The person that takes out a loan.
Who is the borrower?
The difference between in-state residency and out of state.
In-state residency - when those that are from the state they go to college pay lower tuition costs.
Out of state - when those that are not from the state they go to college pay higher tuition costs
A type of school that offers a variety of programs from 6 months to 2 years, in addition offers training on specific careers or trades, but does NOT offer degrees
What is a technical/vocational school?
A degree that is earned after a bachelor's degree and after an additional two years of college.
What is a master's degree?
What are the two types of scholarships?
1. Merit-Based
2. Need-Based
EFC stands for
What is Expected Family Contribution?
A student is called this when they are getting a bachelor's degree.
What is an undergraduate student?
A type of college that is affordable and is a smart choice to start at to take core classes and then ultimately transfer to a 4-year university to get a bachelors degree.
What is a community college?
Not quite a degree, but does require college after high school and can lead directly into the workforce.
What is a certificate and/or a license?
Two types of Stafford Loans offered by the government.
What is a subsidized and unsubsidized loan?
The cost the borrower must pay for the lender's money
What is interest?
True or False. And why? If a person wants to, they can go to college and get it paid for.
True. If a person properly applies for financial aid by getting grants and working hard towards scholarship, all 4 years of college can be paid for.
A type of school that is not always accredited and may not offer legitimate degrees, certificates, and/or licenses.
What is a "TV College" or For-Profit?
Highest level of degree available in the United States.
What is a Doctorate's Degree?
The difference between the two Stafford Loans.
What is a subsidized loan being when the government pays for your interest while in college and an unsubsidized loan is when the government does NOT pay the interest at all?
Is gift aid at $5,965, only available to those that apply through the FAFSA.
What is the Pell Grant?
When a student or a person does not pay installments as agreed in promissory note, the loan's status changes to negative.
What is default?