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Inspiring Women
100
Colleges may look at this to determine how you did in high school compared to your peers
What is class rank
100
This major provides students with a broad base for understanding principles governing life processes at all levels–molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecological.
What is Biology Major
100
Defined as any grant or scholarship, loan, or paid employment offered to help a student meet his/her college expenses. Such aid is usually provided by various sources such as federal and state agencies, colleges, high schools, foundations, and corporations.
What is Financial Aid
100
This career works on the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provision of medical services.
What is Healthcare
100
This person is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. What is her full name?
Who is Malala Yousafzai
200
This is is a non-paying job performed by one person or a group of people for the benefit of the community or its institutions. Performing this is not the same as volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis (i.e court ordered). Colleges look for this on your application.
What is community service
200
Thus major covers American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, and political philosophy.
What is Political Science and Government
200
A grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.
What is a scholarship
200
A person whose job is to keep or inspect financial accounts.
What is an accountant
200
She attended Princeton University and went on to earn a degree from Harvard Law School. Following her graduation from Harvard, she worked at a Chicago law firm, where she met her husband. As first lady, she focused her attention on current social issues, such as poverty, healthy living and education.
Who is Michelle Obama
300
This is a written statement describing a teacher or counselors experience with you throughout high school. Some schools may require 2 or 3.
What is a letter of recommendation
300
This major are for those interested in the study of educational processes and institutions to prepare students for several roles, including counselors who work in schools and other human service organizations, master teachers, school principals and superintendents, private practice counseling psychologists, and higher education faculty and administrators.
What is Education major
300
Money taken out to pay for educational expenses and to be paid at during school or after graduation (general term)
What is student loans
300
A person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings. They provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
What is an architect
300
She was an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart
400
This exam is used for college admissions as well as merit-based scholarships. It has 4 sections including Math, Reading, English, Science
What is the ACT
400
This major would cover hardware to software, building blocks of code and user-facing design
What is Computer Science major
400
Offered by a college, this enables students to work part-time while attending school.
What is work study
400
This profession deals with the design and arts industry. They assemble together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. They creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and advertising.
What is Graphic Designer
400
Born into slavery, she escaped and made thirteen missions to rescue ~70 enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. In the post-war era she was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.
Who is Harriet Tubman
500
This exam is used for college admissions as well as merit-based scholarships. It has 3 sections including Math, Reading, and Writing & Language
What is the SAT
500
This is a general major which can include academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences
What is Liberal Arts
500
Direct Subsidized Loans, Direct Unsubsidized Loans and Direct PLUS Loans (for graduate and professional students or parents) are examples of this type of student loan
What is Federal Student Loans
500
What does the acronym STEM stand for
What is Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
500
She is the head of Aqsa School's Arabic and Religion departments. She became the first parochial Islamic School teacher to receive a prestigious Golden Apple Award of Excellence in Teaching.
Who is Laila El-Amin