College Compass:
Finding Your Fit
Finding Your Fit
The percentage of careers that require a college degree.
What is 60%?
An entrance exam used by most colleges and universities to make admissions decisions.
What is ACT and SAT?
A document used and created by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments.
What is a resume?
Doing something you love/are passionate about and getting paid for it.
What is a career?
Name one of the organizations that was present at the Summer Resource Fair.
What is Aliento, Embry-Riddle, College Connect, Access ASU, and ASU Herberger?
The two types of costs included in the cost of attendance.
What is direct and indirect costs?
A chance to tell your story (what is not on your transcript or resume).
What is a personal statement?
A type of college that offers a broad education across many subject areas rather than focusing on only one field.
What is a Liberal Arts College?
The optional test sections of the ACT.
What is Science and Writing?
Name an opportunity that might require an interview.
What is a Job, Internship, Scholarship, or College?
Name one way you can explore your career interests in high school.
What are joining a club, volunteering, internships, getting a job, and researching?
A section on the Common App that has you list 8-10 things you are involved in.
What is the Activity Section?
A free application that you fill out to qualify for federal and state financial aid?
What is FAFSA?
Grabbing the attention of the reader and introduces your theme.
What is a hook?
The type of degree needed to be a Nurse Practitioner (NP).
What is a Master's Degree?
A special voucher that allows eligible students to take the ACT/SAT without paying the registration fee.
What is a fee waiver?
The dress code for an interview.
What is business casual and business professional?
A secondary area of study in college that a student chooses to complement their major, often requiring fewer courses.
What is a minor?
Something colleges look for when you are involved in a club long-term.
What is a leadership role or progression in roles?
The four types of financial aid.
What is grants, scholarships, loans and work-study?
Showing what you learned, how you grew, and the qualities this shows about you.
What is self-reflection?
The four categories of finding your college fit.
What are Academic Fit, Financial Fit, Social Fit, and Personal Fit?
The online platform for the SAT.
What is Bluebook?
The first question an interviewer might ask you.
What is "Tell me about yourself"?
Name one of the differences between a job and a career.
What is annual salary, higher education/special training required, career promotion, benefits, and passionate about work.
An action you can take at school if your school does not offer anything you are interested in?
What is starting a club?
An application that collects detailed financial information to determine eligibility for institutional grants and scholarships.
What is CSS Profile?
Selection committees want to see students who influence, guide, and help others. They are looking for students who demonstrate ________.
What is leadership?
The core competency (high school graduation) requirements to be admitted to any in-state university.
*List # of years for each core competency
What is 4 years of Math, 4 years of English, 3 years of Lab Science, 2 years of Social Studies, 2 years of the same Foreign Language, and 1 year of fine arts/CTE education?
What NMSQT stands for.
What is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test?
A type of interview that involves multiple candidates being evaluated at the same time, often through activities or discussions to assess teamwork and communication skills.
What is a group interview?
Mapping out the steps you need to take to get to your dream job.
What is a career roadmap?
A way to demonstrate your impact through your achievements and involvement.
What is quantifying your achievements?
The four places that financial aid can come from.
What is government/federal, state, institutions, and private parties?
Top programs care about student's _____. Not just their achievements.
What is character?