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Undergraduate Alma Maters
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College Glossary
By the Numbers
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USD
What are the Toreros?
100
Mr. Chris Harrington
What is UCSD?
100
The minimum number of trimesters required by Parker's Art Department
What is five?
100
Currently utilized by 490 colleges, this form will become incredibly familiar when you are submitting information to the colleges on your list.
What is the Common Application?
100
Parker's code used for the ACT and SAT registration
What is 052843 ?
200
University of Oregon
What are the Ducks?
200
Ms. Rose Hanscom
What is Cal Poly SLO?
200
The number of physical education/athletic credits required if you start counting during sophomore year
What is twelve?
200
A college application typically filed in November of senior year that is a binding agreement between you and the college is referred to in this way
What is Early Decision?
200
The number of approved weighted classes the UC schools will use when recalculating GPA's from the students sophomore and junior years
What is four?
300
Loyola Marymount University
What are the Lions?
300
Dr. Hima Joshi
What is Northwestern University?
300
Parker students must take science classes from these three disciplines
What are Physics, Chemistry & Biology?
300
Students wishing to play DI or DII sports in college are encouraged to register with this organization by this time in the junior year of high school
What is NCAA Eligibility Center?
300
Reportedly, Stanford received over 38,000 applications this year, yet another increase in what is sure to be their most competitive admission cycle on record. Within 1 percentage point, name their existing record low acceptance rate.
What is 6% ?
400
SMU
What are the Mustangs?
400
Mr. Tom Crowley
What is Pomona College?
400
Part of being a well-rounded student at Cornell means passing this physical education test
What is swimming?
400
Applicants who are sons or daughters of a college's alumni are commonly referred to in this way
Who are legacies?
400
For those interested in Boston area schools, with three degrees this is the average daily high temperature in the city during the month of March.
What is 46 degrees?
500
NYU
What are the Violets?
500
Mr. Paul Barsky
What is Columbia College
500
In addition to completing courses within a major, many liberal arts colleges require students to take courses across a wide array of disciplines, commonly referred to as ...
What is the core curriculum, distribution requirement or general education courses?
500
Implemented approximately five years ago by the College Board, this policy allows students to decide which of their test date results they would like to release to the colleges
What is Score Choice?
500
This rather large mid-western university has attracted six Parker students from the last two graduating classes combined.
What is the University of Michigan?
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