Getting into College
Name two things that you should consider when you are deciding on the right college.
Distance from home, size, majors offered, cost of tuition, extracurricular activities available, etc.
Generally speaking, if you go to college, you will make more money in your job over the course of your life. True or false?
True
Money awarded to a college student for unique talents or abilities
A test(s) that helps colleges decide whether or not to admit you.
What is the SAT and/or ACT?
The term for someone who is the first person in their family to go to college
What is a first generation college student?
Activities that students do outside of their regular classes that are not required to graduate
What are extracurricular activities?
This is known as a four year degree
What is a Bachelor's degree?
Money to be used for college that must be paid back.
What is a student loan?
A high school sophomore test that helps predict how a student will perform on the SAT.
What is the PSAT?
This could greatly affect the range of majors offered and extracurricular activities at a college/university. This also could affect the amount of personal attention a student will receive from professors.
What is campus size?
A document written on your behalf that demonstrates academic strength and personal qualities
What is a letter of recommendation?
A group of jobs and industries that are related by skills or products and share common features.
What is a career cluster?
Federal or state aid that does not need to be repaid.
What is a grant?
An upper level undergraduates or graduate student who assists' a professor in the classroom with teaching and other tasks.
What is a teaching assistant (TA)?
A postgraduate degree that requires a Bachelor's degree.
What is a Master's degree?
A calculation that represents the total number of grade points received in high school or college
What is a GPA?
An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
What is a career?
A work program to help you earn money to pay for college.
What is work-study?
Military training program during college attendance; typically students receive compensation for this and are offered an officer’s commission at graduation.
What is ROTC?
A college office hold information that helps students pay for college.
What is a financial aid office?
This form includes a section for personal information, academic history, activities, essays and recommendations
What is a college application?
They promise a college scholarship in exchange for four years of service.
What is the armed services, military?
Fees paid to an institution when you are from another state.
What is out-of-state tuition?
This application is completed to assist student and parents with funding college. (grants, scholarships, work-study, and student loans)
What is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)?
This is what students are called when they are working towards a bachelor degree.
What is an undergraduate?