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The name for a time period when a student takes courses in another country.
What is study-abroad?
Money given to a student based on academic performance. This award does not have to be paid back.
What is a scholarship?
Deciding factor: I want to have easy access to my professors. A school on my list has a 1:5 teacher-to-student ratio, while most of the other schools have a 1:20 ratio
Keep. Sounds like a great fit for what this student wants.
The school that boasts Will Ferrell, Neil Armstrong, and Sophia Bush among its famous alums.
What is the University of Southern California (USC)?
The institutions named the top public universities by U.S. News and World Report in 2018.
What are UC Berkeley and UCLA?
Madison, WI
Where is the University of Wisconsin at Madison?
The name of a supervised short-term job in a real-world setting closely related to a student’s field of study.
What is an internship?
Money given to a student based on financial need. This award must be paid back.
What is a loan?
Deciding factor: the school’s football team is the best in the nation! I want to watch all their games!
Cut. Watch them on TV.
The women's-only college that Martha Stewart attended.
What is Barnard College?
The youngest (most recently founded) university in the Ivy League.
What is Cornell University?
St. Louis, MO
Where is Washington University in St. Louis (WashU)? (or St. Louis University)
A student social organization, typically affiliated with a larger national organization, that indoctrinates members through a two-step vetting and probationary process.
What is a fraternity or sorority?
A measure of your family's financial strength and is calculated according to a formula established by law.
"What is Expected Family Contribution?
Note: Your EFC is not the amount of money your family will have to pay for college nor is it the amount of federal student aid you will receive. It is a number used by your school to calculate the amount of federal student aid you are eligible to receive."
Deciding factor: I want to attend this school because the beach is only 10 minutes away.
Cut. While location is important, being close to the beach should not be a deciding factor.
The west-coast university where Bruce Lee majored in Philosophy.
What is the University of Washington?
The institution named the top liberal arts college by U.S. News and World Report in 2018.
What is Williams College?
Houston, TX
Where is Rice University? (or University of Houston)
An institution that aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.
What is a liberal arts college?
The name of the granted subsidy provided by the U.S. federal government provides for students who need it to pay for college. They do not need to be repaid, but are limited to students with financial need, who have not earned their first bachelor's degree.
What is a Pell Grant?
Deciding factor: it’s the top school in the nation for my major, but it’s expensive.
Keep. You may be able to get scholarships or grants to attend this school.
President Barack Obama was enrolled at this institution before transferring to Columbia University.
What is Occidental College?
The university that currently boasts the highest tuition fee in the nation.
What is Columbia University?
Baltimore, MD
Where is Johns Hopkins University? (or Towson University, Loyola University, Goucher University, UMBC, Morgan State University)
A degree program that is generally more strictly focused on their subject matter, requiring more credits that are directly linked to the major, typically in the STEM fields.
What is a bachelor of science (B.S.) degree?
The name of the loaned subsidy provided by the U.S. federal government provides for students who need it to pay for college. These loans must be repaid beginning six months after they drop below half-time attendance, whether they earned a degree or not.
What is a Stafford Loan?
Deciding factor: I don’t really want to attend this school, but all my friends are going here and I don’t want to be alone my first year.
Cut. You should pick a school that you want to attend, not one your current friend group is attending.
The university in the UK where Prince William and Kate Middleton met.
What is University of St. Andrews?
The southern university was named the school with the happiest students in the latest Princeton Review college rankings.
What is Vanderbilt University?
New Brunswick, ME
Where is Bowdin College?