College Lingo
Your main course of study
What is a Major?
The collection of a person's traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns. .
What is Personality?
Application platform for schools in the US used by more than 1000 member universities.
What is the Common Application (Common App)?
Community college offering A-levels and a range of Associate Degrees.
What is Antigua State College (ASC)?
A failing grade at IA is below _______ %
What is 60?
Money students get from a university that does not need to be paid back.
What is a Scholarship/Grant?
Things that people that are naturally very good at.
What is Talent?
Processes online applications for admission to the 21 universities in Ontario, Canada.
What is the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC)?
The school offering a specialized pre-med program that results in an Associate of Science in Health Sciences degree.
What is the American International College of Arts and Sciences (AICASA)?
The subject area most popular among IA students to study for the past 5 years.
What is Business?
A degree which undergraduate students take 3 or 4 years to obtain.
What is a Bachelor's (degree).
A capability that can be developed further over time through practice and more experience.
What is a Strength?
This platform must be used by students wishing to apply to nearly 400 universities in the UK
What is the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS?)
Located in Jabberwok, institution has a school of business, a school of art & design as well as engineering & technology.
What is Antigua and Barbuda International Institute of Technology (ABIIT)
The year the IB program was first introduced to IA to help students get accepted to universities of choice.
What is 2009?
A two year program offered especially by community colleges.
What is an Associates (degree)?
Visual, linguistic, interpersonal and mathematical are among the types of this that people may possess.
What is Intelligence?
An all-in-one university matching and information sharing and careers guidance platform that IA students do not take full advantage of?
What is a BridgeU?
This school is the only school in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States offering the highly prestigious IB Diploma Program.
What is Island Academy?
The Caribbean medical school at least 1 IB student has matriculated to since 2021
What St. George's University (SGU)?
A required document produced by a college counsellor about a student's academic history, achievements and extra-curricular and general college readiness.
What is a Recommendation Letter
The range of activities available to students outside of class time.
What are Extra-curriculars / extra-curricular activities?
US college bound-students will need to pair their Common App account with this platform for Ms. Charles to send all required documents to universities.
What is BridgeU?
This institution attracts international students wishing to pursue a 4 year MD postgraduate degree for careers in medicine.
What is American University of Antigua (AUA)?
The school in Florida that has received the most applications from IA students since 2021
What is Florida Institute of Technology / Florida Tech?
A requirement that has to be satisfied before you can enroll in a specific course.
What is a pre-requisite?
A creative display of items that help an individual visualize their future goals.
What is a Vision Board?
For the release of their final G11 transcripts, students should update their data on this platform.
What is a BridgeU? :P
The newest campus of the Caribbean's most prestigious global university.
What is University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus - UWI FIC?
Largest IBDP class size number ever at IA.
What is 17?