Admissions
This is the cumulative average of the final grades in all of your courses, including the level of rigor for each class.
What is weighted GPA (Grade Point Average)?
This is a website that you must register with in order to take the SAT and AP Tests, as well as research college/major information.
What is www.collegeboard.com?
The term for any kind of enrichment pursued outside of your academic courses that colleges like to see.
What are extracurricular activities?
This school is North Carolina's largest university by enrollment and a top-tier research institution.
What is North Carolina State University?
Among the following college admissions considerations, ________ is not a top factor.
- Grades in AP/Honors classes, Class Rank, GPA, or SAT/ACT scores
What is Class Rank?
This is an online college admission website that, along with Common App, assists students in their college search.
What is Naviance?
Successful completion of these courses and a strong score on an exam may allow a student to receive college credits.
What are Advanced Placement (AP) courses?
This is the term used when a college does not have a set deadline to apply.
What is Rolling Admissions?
Students can apply at any point throughout the year (typically- these are less selective schools)
This HBCU (historically Black college/university) is not only the largest in the country, but it's also a top producer of Black graduates in engineering, agriculture, and teaching.
What is North Carolina A&T State University?
It is important to cultivate positive relationships with your teachers because you will need them to support your application with at least one of these.
What are letters of recommendation?
This person is there to support and assist you through high school and the college admissions process.
Who is your school counselor?
MR. SEDRICK :) (and Ms. Karli)
This non-binding deadline for college admissions is typically due in November.
What is Early Action?
Like Early Decision, students apply in November and hear decisions in December or January.
This school, founded in 1899, has a mascot named Yosef.
What is Appalachian State University?
The term used when you take the highest score from each section of a standardized test across multiple test sittings, rather than considering just the scores from the highest overall test sitting.
What is SuperScore?
Almost all colleges SuperScore the SAT and the ACT!
This application is required in order to receive any sort of financial assistance from the government.
What is the FAFSA?
Who knows what this stands for?
A "record" of a student's academic progress, including all courses taken, grades, completion for each course, and GPA.
This is what you receive from prior courses taken at another college that can be applied to the completion of a degree at your current college.
What are transfer credits?
This public research university is the only one in the state with a dental school, medical school, and engineering college.
What is East Carolina University?
This document is sent along with your supporting materials and helps colleges understand an applicant in the context of their high school.
What is a School Profile?
This type of financial aid is given to students without regard to their family income, but because of student achievement.
What are scholarships/Merit-based aid?
(FREE MONEY); awarded based on academics, extracurricular involvement, leadership, talent, etc.
A loan that accrues interest while you are still attending college.
What is an unsubsidized loan?
What is Waitlisted?
When a college doesn't reach its target enrollment, they go to their waitlist to admit more students.
Anyone know the difference between waitlisted and deferred?
This NC university has the highest tuition & fees in North Carolina at $62,688 per year.
What is Duke University?