Show:
College Types
College Degrees
College Testing
Financial Aid
College Admissions
100
Term used to refer to a group of 8 universities in the northeast known for academic excellence.
What is the Ivy League?
100
Degree granted after completing a two-year program of study.
What is an Associate's Degree
100
The agency that administers the SAT, SAT II, and AP exams.
What is the College Board?
100
A free online form to apply for federal financial aid.
What is the FAFSA--Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
100
No application deadlines; colleges accept applications and applicants throughout the year. Decisions to admit students are made on a case-by-case basis and students usually receive decision letters within 4 to 8 weeks.
What are Rolling Admissions?
200
Generally offer the first two years of a liberal arts education, as well as vocational training.
What is a community or junior college?
200
Degree granted after completing a four-year program of studies in an area of science.
What is a Bachelor's of Science--B.S. ?
200

College admissions test that has four components: English, Math, Science, and Reading. Highest score is 36; recent national average is around 19–20.

What is the ACT?

200
Aid that is based on need.
What is financial assistance offered on the basis of the family's level of income?
200
Applications are due to most colleges and universities between January 15 and February 1 (the University of California schools have application deadlines of November 30).
What is Regular Admission?
300
With their larger numbers of female faculty and administrators, offer college women confidence-building role models and greater opportunities to serve in a full range of student leadership positions.
What are Women's Colleges?
300
Degree granted after completing a four year program of study in the Fine Arts
What is the Bachelor's of Fine Arts--BFA?
300
Test usually taken by 10th and 11th graders. Serves as practice for SAT and determines eligibility for National Merit and National Hispanic scholarships
What is the PSAT?
300
Aid based on merit or academic performance available to high-performing students, regardless of family income.
What is merit aid?
300
Virtually all high school graduates are accepted, regardless of academic performance.
What is Open Admissions?
400
Focus on the education of undergraduate students, exposing them to a broad base of courses in the humanities and sciences.
What is a liberal arts college?
400
A degree earned after a Bachelor's degree in a specific area of study. Usually takes two academic years.
What is a Master's Degree--MS, MBA, MFA
400

College admissions test, now fully digital, usually taken spring of junior year or fall of senior year. Perfect score is 1600.

What is the SAT?

400
This grant is available to students whose families are eligible for free or reduced lunch.
What is the Pell Grant?
400
This is the percent of applicants admitted by schools that are considered to most selective or highly competitive.
What is 15% or fewer of applicants accepted?
500
Generally larger and include a liberal arts college, as well as some graduate programs.
What is a university?
500
The highest in the hierarchy of academic degrees offered in the U.S. Takes an average of 7 years.--Ph.D., Ed.D, M.D., J.D.
What is the doctoral degree?
500

Advanced coursework options that demonstrate subject mastery, often considered by selective colleges in place of discontinued SAT Subject Tests.

What are AP (Advanced Placement) or IB (International Baccalaureate) courses?

500

The Student Aid Index (SAI) — the amount displayed after completing the FAFSA that colleges use to determine federal financial aid eligibility.

What is the SAI (Student Aid Index)?

500
An applicant is considered a legacy and therefore has a "hook" at a college if this is true.
What is a college from which your parent and/or grandparent graduated?