Remaining NGVF Benefits
College Application Process
High School
College Vocabulary
NGVF Expectations
100
What is your all-access pass for your test prep and college admissions needs?
What is Kaplan benefits? ACT Dates: http://www.actstudent.org/regist/dates.html SAT test date: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/register/test-dates Kaplan Benefits-Register By phone (1-877-431-9044) OR Email: testadvisor@kaplan.com
100
What is a college essay that gives admissions officers insights into your character, personality, and motivation?
What is a personal statement?
100
What is an activity performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education?
What is Extracurricular Activities?
100
What is a standardized application form accepted by many colleges for evaluation for college admission?
What is a Common/Universal Application https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx
100
What is the expected average you need to maintain in all of your courses throughout high school?
What is a B average.
200
What is your NGVF benefit hosted every fall and spring that provides you and your family with information about educational, personal, college, and other resources available through your NGVF Scholarship Program.
What is NGVF workshop?
200
What is a written record of student's grades?
What is an Official Transcript?
200
What is 4 years of English, Math, Science, History, Foreign Language, PE, Electives?
What is Course/Graduation Requirements?
200
What is the Federal application every student must submit to be eligible for federal financial aid?
What is FAFSA- Free Application for Federal Student Aid? http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
200
What type of conference are you required to have with your NGVF advisor after each workshop?
What is a telephone conference?
300
What is a guide with valuable resources, templates, and activities pertaining to the college application process.
What is a Senior Workbook?
300
What type of test(s) are you required to take to enter college?
What is SAT or ACT?
300
What is a guide provided by NGVF to assist with course selection in high school?
What is an Education Plan?
300
What is money for college that does not have to be paid back?
What is scholarships?
300
What do your NGVF advisors expect you to do at the workshops?
What is participate?
400
What is Gifted Learning Links? What is eSeminars? What is eStudies?
What is your online course requirement options? GLL: http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/gll/courses/honorselectives/courses2012-13/ eSeminars/eStudies: http://www.tip.duke.edu/node/47
400
What is a letter written on your behalf and sent in for a scholarship or college/university?
What is a letter of recommendation?
400
If you qualify for free or reduced lunch, how many SAT and ACT fee waivers can you receive?
What is 2 SAT and 2 ACT?
400
What is a free, open invitation presentation by many colleges, usually at a local high school or college campus?
400
What is acceptance and enrollment to a selective college/university?
What is College Admission?
500
What is a meeting to get advice on how to help ensure that you are competitive admissions candidate for selective colleges?
What is a College Portfolio?
500
College admissions sometimes require student to do this in addition to submitting their application? Hint: It is often done in the student's hometown.
What is an interview?
500
What is the name of the new college search portal that we recommend NGVF students to use?
What is College Greenlight?
500
What is signed by the instructor/department, to be waived from paying for exams or college applications?
What is a Fee Waiver?
500
What is required submission of NGVF documents?
What is summer surveys, final grades, donor letter, and extracurricular summary form?