A degree given by community colleges to someone who has completed 2 years of undergraduate education.
What is an Associate's Degree?
100
An award that gives a student money (that they do not have to pay back) to pay for education.
What is a scholarship?
100
Also called a "trade school". The kind of school where you can learn the skills you need to perform a specific job (usually something physical).
What is a vocational school?
100
A test that high school students usually have to take to get accepted into college. It is generally taken during junior year of high school and includes reading, math, english, science, and writing. More common in states like MN than in states on the West or East coast.
What is the ACT test?
100
The money that a students pays to take classes.
What is tuition?
200
A degree given by a college or university to someone who has finished 4 years of undergraduate education.
What is a bachelor's degree?
200
A money award based on a student's academic, athletic, or artistic abilities
What is a merit-based scholarship?
200
A school to attend after high school that offers many 4 year (Bachelor's) degree options, but not many or no graduate (Master's or Doctorate) degrees.
What is a college?
200
An official document that shows a list of the student's classes and the grades that they received.
What is a transcript?
200
A unit that shows the value of an academic class. A class that is worth more usually shows that the class is higher level, more difficult, requires more work, etc.
What is a credit?
300
The highest degree given by a university, after 8 total years of post-high school education.
What is a Doctorate degree (or Ph.D)?
300
A money award given to students who plan to study for a specific career (ex. a nurse, a teacher, a social worker, etc.).
What is a career-specific scholarship?
300
A 2 year college that offers Associate's degrees and classes to anyone in the community.
What is a community college?
300
The process of getting into college: usually requires your transcript, personal essays, letters of recommendation, and a list of extracurricular activities.
What is a college application?
300
The main subject that a student studies during college is their _____. The second main subject that a student studies during college is their ______.
What is a major and minor?
400
The degree given to you after you have completed 4 years of undergraduate education and 2 years of graduate education.
What is a Master's degree?
400
A money award based on things like the student's gender, race, religion, family history, medical history, being a first generation college student, etc.
What is a student-specific scholarship?
400
A school that offers many 4 year (Bachelor's) degree options and many graduate (Master's and/or Doctorate) degree options.
What is a university?
400
Money given to students so they can pay their tuition and other living expenses. Some is in the form of scholarships and some is in the form of student loans.
What is financial aid?
400
Anything that has to do with learning or education
What is academic?
500
Luis is a psychologist. His degrees that he has earned are written as "BA and Ph.D". What types of degrees does Luis have?
A bachelor's degree and a doctorate degree.
500
Jayden wants to go to college and is looking for scholarships that he may qualify for. He is a black male with a 3.8 GPA, and he has had to learn to manage a seizure disorder (called epilepsy) while going to school. Out of the scholarships we learned about, which ones is he mostly likely to qualify for?
Merit-based (academic) and student-specific (based on his race and his medical history).
500
Trina wants to become an athletic trainer, so she is looking into getting a Exercise Science Associate's degree. What type of college should she look into?
A community college
500
In Minnesota, how many high school credits do you need to earn your diploma?
64 credits total
(12 english, 9 math, 10 social studies, 9 science, 1 health, 1 life fitness, 3 art, 19 electives)
500
List 3 different examples of extracurricular activities.