Building Relationships
Activities you do outside of your academics.
What are extracurricular activities?
The sum of all your course grades throughout your high school career divided by the total number of credits.
What is grade point average? (GPA)
Mentoring program at UArizona that prioritizes Indigenous mentorship, Indigenous ways of knowing, and Indigenous belonging in academia.
What is Native SOAR?
An American movie studio and theme park located near Saguaro National Park.
What is Old Tucson?
The mascot(s) for the University of Arizona? (Hint: Begins with two Ws)
What is Wilbur and Wilma?
Act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor for community service.
What is volunteering?
An official document that shows the courses you have taken, the grades earned, and a cumulative grade point average (GPA)
What is a transcript?
UArizona summer program for high school students to support their development of reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.
What is Young Writers Institute?
The highest point in the Santa Catalina Mountains located in the Coronado National Forest (Hint: Mountain).
What is Mount Lemmon?
Cheaper public college where you can get your associates (2 year) degree and other certificates.
What is community college?
A letter written by someone who can recommend an individual's work or academic performance.
What is a letter of recommendation?
Academically challenging classes that proceed at a faster pace and cover more material than a regular class.
What is honors class?
Program at UArizona for Native high school students with a vision of a career in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field.
What is Native American Science and Engineering Program (NASEP)?
The University of Arizona resides on the ancestral lands of which tribes.
What is Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui tribe?
Four year institutions are called...
What are universities?
A group of students elected by their peers to address issues of concern and organize student events and activities.
What is student council?
Course that offers undergraduate university-level curricula and examinations to high school students.
What is advanced placement (AP)?
7-week program at UArizona for AZ high school students with a strong interest in the interdisciplinary biosciences, biomedicine, and data science.
What is KEYS Research Internship? (Keep Encouraging Youth in Science)
An active study site and ecological reserve of UArizona (Hint: Hill people walk).
What is Tumamoc Hill?
Free or cheaper tuition cost for Native American students. (Type of institution)
What are TCUs? (Tribal Colleges and Universities)
Professionals who work in schools providing academic, personal and career advice to students.
What is a guidance counselor?
Allows current high school students to take college-level classes where they are enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions.
What is dual enrollment?
6 week summer academic enrichment program focused on improving access to information and resources for 11th Grade High School students interested in the health professions.
What is Med-Start Health Career?
A historic Spanish Catholic mission located on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation.
What is Mission San Xavier del Bac?
Attempts to measure your math, verbal, analytical, and writing skills. (Hint: ACT/SAT)
What are college entrance exams?