Financial Aid terms
The document you receive from a college that explains the terms of the financial aid that the college is offering you. The information includes the types and amounts of financial aid offered, what you’re expected to do to keep the award and a deadline for accepting the award.
What is an Award letter
A degree you can earn in 2–3 years
What is a Associate’s Degree
an on-campus student living facility
What is a dorm
These include organization, note-taking and plenty of study time.
Study Skills
community service to help students get organized
Binder Boot Camp
A kind of "gift aid" — financial aid that doesn’t have to be paid back.
What is a Grant
A degree you earn in four years
What is a bachelors degree.
A social organization for college men. Many fraternities operate their own houses where members live and host events.
What is a fraternity
These include paying bills and budgeting
What is money management skill
Ms. Cummings Favorite flower
Tulips
A program that allows students to take a part-time campus job as part of their financial aid package
What is work/study
a graduate degree that you typically pursue following the completion of a bachelor’s degree.
What is a maters degree
A social organization for college women. Many fraternities operate their own houses where members live and host events.
What is a sorority
The ability to work with or talk to other people in an effective and friendly way.
What is people skills
Favorite class trip
Anything
These need-based loans have a low interest rate of 3.73 percent, and the government pays the interest charges while you're in college.
What is Federal Direct Subsidized Loans
A doctoral research degree and the highest level of academic qualification you can achieve.
What is a PhD
A term for the emotional distress students may feel as they adjust to a new life on campus away from their home and family.
Ability to work in groups
What are collaborative skills
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These non-need-based government loans also have a fixed interest rate of 3.73 percent. But they allow you to borrow more money than a Direct Subsidized Loan alone. You can pay the interest while you’re in college or add it to the amount of your loan. The second option means you’ll end up paying more money over time
What are Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans
A test the measures the skills necessary for success in the first year of law school.
What is the LSAT
This dictates how many meals a student can eat at on-campus dining facilities.
What is a meal plan
The ability to search for, locate, extract, organize, evaluate, and use or present information that is relevant to a particular topic
Research Skills