A document proving that someone has completed an educational program.
What is a degree?
100
One half of the school year and the length that most of your classes will last.
What is a semester?
100
In order to get into college, I want to participate in a lot of these. These are activities that I do outside of my high school classes.
What are extra-curricular activities?
100
The period of time when new students come early in order to get HELP learning about their new college.
What is New Student Orientation?
100
This is a building with sleeping and living space for a large number of students.
What is a residence hall?
200
This is the highest type of degree you can earn.
What is a Doctorate Degree?
200
The subject area of study you focus the most classes on in college.
What is your major?
200
Before applying to a college, I should try to go on one of these to get to see the whole college campus.
What is a campus tour?
200
This is the place I can go to get HELP with questions about my dorm or roommate.
What is Residential Life?
200
The physical area a school is located on, including all of its buildings.
What is a campus?
300
This is a four-year degree that you can earn at a public or private university or college.
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
300
The subject area of study that you focus the second most number of classes on in college.
What is your minor?
300
Before applying to college, I need to take one of these two national tests.
What is the ACT or the SAT?
300
This is the person I can go to if I need HELP deciding what classes will help me best in my major and after I graduate.
Who is your academic advisor?
300
This is a student in high school who is considering a certain college.
Who is a prospective student?
400
This is a type of degree you earn in two years that is offered by three different types of colleges.
What is an Associate's Degree?
400
A program where you gain experience in a job by working there for a short period of time. You often get credits for completing these.
What is an internship?
400
In order to get into college, I need to work hard to maintain a good one of these. This is an average of all of the grades that I receive in high school.
What is your GPA?
400
This is the place I can go to get HELP if I want to find something really, really cool that is happening on campus.
What is Student Activities?
400
This is money students use to pay for education. It includes all of the grants, loans, scholarships and work-study.
What is Financial Aid?
500
This is the type of degree you earn after a Bachelor's and before a Doctorate, where you learn about your subject and study in more depth.
What is a Master's Degree?
500
A required amount of community service that a student must complete in order to graduate college.
What is Service Learning?
500
In order to get into college, I need to work hard to maintain a good one of these. This is a comparison of my grades to other students' grades in my graduating class.
What is my class rank?
500
This is the place I can go if I need HELP adding or dropping a class or paying for college.
What is Student Services?
500
One of the two terms that means any type of school after high school.
What is Higher Education or Post-secondary Education?