Colleges
True or False, you can search for a college using a mileage radius from a certain zip code.
What is True?
Do all schools require either the SAT or ACT scores?
What is No? Some schools do not require the SAT or the ACT.
What is the largest number of activities that you can put in the activities section of common app?
What is 10?
This is money you borrow that you have to pay back, usually with interest.
What is a loan?
This is the maximum word limit for the Common App personal statement?
What is 650?
What percent of schools on the common app require an application fee?
What is 50%?
What is a weighted grade?
What is a grading system that assigns different levels of importance to certain assignments or courses in a student's overall grade?
During what grade levels can you list the activity?
What is 9-12th Grade?
True or false, you can apply to scholarships through Common App?
What is yes?
Who needs access to your application?
What is my school counselor and recommenders?
How many schools are there on the Common App?
What is 1,111?
If you are filling out the Common App in your fall semester of school, do you need to put any classes that you will be taking in the spring?
What is yes? You need to list all of the courses that you will be taking in that school year.
Do all activities have to be school related?
What is no?
This is the form that many colleges require in addition to the Common App to assess a student's financial need.
What is FAFSA?
True or False, you can find information about the colleges on the Common App?
What is True?
The Common App allows students to list up to this number of schools...
What is 20?
Will you have to put your parent/guardians education on the common app?
What is Yes you will in the family section?
If your activity happened over the summer, should you put it for the grade level before that summer, or after that summer?
What is after that summer? Use the following school year for summer activities.
These two types of aid do not need to be repaid.
What is a Grant and Scholarship?
Do you have to list your major or field of study when you do the Common App?
What is no, you do not have to list your major or field of study?
This section of the Common App asks students to list all of the extracurricular activities they’ve been involved in during high school.
What is Activities?
This is what it is called when you apply to a college to hear back early, and agrees to attend if admitted.
What is early decision?
What if my activity is not in the dropdown menu?
What is click other and type in your answer?
In the Financial Aid tab, Common App can help you find these...
What are scholarships?
How long do the answers to college questions in the app last?
What is 1 year? After that year, the questions refresh and you have to answer them again.