The College Search
Unlike Early Action or Regular Decision, this application plan is a binding agreement if you’re accepted.
What is Early Decision?
Utilizing this tool is considered unethical when writing your college essay.
What is ChatGPT/AI?
This federal form is often the first step students take when applying for need-based financial aid.
(Please list out the acronym and its full term)
What is the FAFSA or Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
This one-page document summarizes your academic, extracurricular, and leadership experiences for colleges.
What is a college resume?
This College Success Coach from Onward We Learn specializes in career education and gap years.
Who is Marlex?
What does a match school mean?
What is your academic records/student profile matches the students that have been admitted to that college/university?
When writing your essay, you should do this instead of telling your story?
What is show?
This type of aid, based on academic, artistic, or athletic achievements, is not dependent on family income.
What is merit-based aid?
When preparing for a college interview, students should be ready to answer this type of open-ended question about themselves.
What is “Tell me about yourself” or a personal interest question?
This College Access Manager majored in Education and Music at the only Seven Sister college that went co-ed.
Who is Leonard?
What is the percentage a school should have for retention and graduation rate?
What is 80%?
You want to avoid topics that do not have a resolution, you want be a ___ rising from the ashes?
What is Phoenix?
Some colleges commit to meeting this percentage of a student’s demonstrated financial need, regardless of income.
What is 100% need-met?
This career tool groups interests into six categories like Enterprising and Investigative to help students explore suitable paths.
What is the RIASEC assessment?
This recent college graduate majored in Advertising at a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.
Who is Mari?
When adding a recommender on the Common App, who gets added to ALL schools and who needs to be assigned to schools individually?
Who is counselor assigned to all schools and teacher needs to be assigned to schools individually?
What is the outline of a college essay?
What is Introduction, Body paragraph (supporting paragraph1,2,3), and conclusion?
This term refers to the total cost of college, including tuition, housing, meals, and personal expenses.
What is the Cost of Attendance (COA)?
To receive disability accommodations in college, a student must first register with this office.
What is the Office of Disability Services (or Accessibility Services)?
Vicky was an admissions counselor at this Massachusetts college when it closed in 2018.
What is Mount Ida College?
It is recommended to look at endowments of __ million for private institutions.
What is $50 million?
Your college essay isn’t being read by your parents, teachers, classmates, or the entire university. Instead, it’s being reviewed by this group of professionals, about 59% are women and their average age is 47.
Who are admissions officers?
What are three full ride scholarships that were highlighted in the scholarship presentation?
What are the Questbridge, Gates, and Jack Kent Cooke College scholarships?
Explain the main difference between how high schools and colleges handle accommodations under federal law.
What is: in high school, accommodations are provided proactively under IDEA; in college, students must self-advocate and provide documentation under ADA and Section 504?
This former Johnson and Wales English professor specializes in college admissions essays.
Who is Mary?