Some students attend one of these for two-years and then transfer to a four-year college to save money.
What is a Community College?
100
What are AA, AS, BA, BS, MA, MS, MBA, JD, MD, PhD?
What are types of degrees?
100
In 1900, this organization was created to expand access to higher education. Formed by a handful of colleges, its purpose was to simplify the application process for students and college admission offices.
What is the College Board?
100
Usually taken during your sophomore year in high school
What is the PSAT?
100
There are over 7,000 of these attended by more than 15 milliion students
What are US colleges and universities?
200
If you have need, are very good at a sport, or extremely high grades, you might get lucky enough to receive one of these:
What is a scholarship?
200
PSAT, SAT and ACT
What college placement tests?
200
In 1636, this institution of higher education became a bachelor's degree-granting institution. Located in Mass., it is recognized as the oldest University in North American.
What is Harvard?
200
The most widely used college admissions test
What is the SAT?
200
800 is a perfect score
What is the SAT?
300
About $35,000.
What is the average annual tuition (plus expenses) at a private, non-profit, four-year college?
300
Taken during high school, these courses may give you college credit
What are AP or Advanced Placement Courses?
300
The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars". This university, founded in 1088, is recognized as the first univeristy.
What is the Italizan University of Bologna?
300
These tests, offered in Literature, US & World History, Math I & II, Chemistry, Foreign Languages and more, offer you an additional opportunity to show colleges what you know
What are the SAT subject tests?
300
Starting in 1975 with 15 private colleges, today membership is over 400 public and private institutions
What is the Common Application?
400
These must be paid back
What are college loans?
400
For schools that operate on a four point scale, the average is calculated from the following: •4.0 = A,
•3.0 = B, •2.0 = C, •1.0 = D (minimum pass/not transferable to another institution), •0.0 = F (failure)
What is a GPA?
400
A group of prestigious and respected univeristies in the NE United States consisting of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the U of Pennsylvania and Yale
What is the Ivy League?
400
To gain acceptance at a US Military Academy, you must pass one of these tests
What is a physical?
400
Financially, it is generally better to attend one of these that gives state residence a lower tuition.
What is an in state college?
500
Tuition plus expenses for room & board (food), books, and travel
What is are typical college expenses?
500
After 4 years of study at the college level, and succeffully meeting credit requirements, you may be awarded one of these
What is a BA (Bachelor of Arts) or BS (Bachelor of Science) degree?
500
Founded more than one hundred years ago as a way to protect student-athletes, this organization continues to implement that principle with increased emphasis on both athletics and academic excellence.
What is the NCAA?
500
Document that contains the list of courses taken and final grades
What is a transcript?
500
On average, college graduates earn around double the amount as these