Alphabet Soup
A.A.S is the acronym for these two-year career and technical degrees.
What is an Associates of Applied Sciences?
FVCC processes this amount of money in scholarships each year.
What is a million dollars?
In college one credit is equivalent to this amount of class time per week.
What is one hour?
If you aren't doing well in a course and want to avoid a bad grade, you may do this up to the 75% point in the course.
What is withdraw?
"Generals" refer to these. Also known as GERs.
What are General Education Requirements?
Student loans must be repaid, this other source of financial aid is free if you qualify.
What is a Pell Grant?
This document is a permanent academic record of a student at college. It may show courses taken, grades recieved, academic status, and honors recieved.
What is a college transcript?
All you need to know about each course will be in this document, which you recieve the first day if class.
What is a syllabus?
GPA, otherwise known as this, is important to know how to calculate.
What is a grade point average?
Attending FVCC instead of UM or MSU will save you approximately this amount of money per year.
What is $5,000?
You may have to take these type of courses to prepare for a specific degree.
What are prerequisite courses?
To be in good academic standing and be eligible for financial aid this GPA must be maintained.
What is a 2.0?
FAFSA is not just a funny word for how to get money for college, it stands for these 5 words.
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
Earning 30 credits with a 3.5 GPA or higher, joining the Honors Program, and graduating top 10% of your High School class are all ways to get one of these at FVCC.
What is a Tuition Scholarship?
Once you have this number of credits you are considered a sophomore at FVCC.
What are 30 credits?
In college, instructors are available to meet with you one-on-one during these scheduled times.
What are office hours?