College
This is the name given to any post-secondary (post-high school) institution.
What is college/university?
This is how much credit you earn for passing a semester-long core or elective class.
What is .5 credits?
What is a half credit?
This is an example of a fine art.
What is choir, band, art, etc?
This is the amount of money a person makes per year at his/her job.
What is a salary?
This is the test most colleges/universities require you take in order to apply. Hint: You take this test during your junior year of high school.
SAT
You will take the PSAT again this year; remember P means practice.
These are institutions that offer 1-2 year programs that result in a certificate or a 2-year degree? Examples: Warren Tech, Red Rocks, CCD
What is a community college?
What is a technical college?
This is the term for the average of a student's grades?
What is Grade Point Average (GPA)?
You earn this much credit for passing Advisement each semester.
What is .25 credit?
What is a quarter credit?
This model has 6 clusters and 17 different pathways.
What is the Colorado Career Cluster Model?
These are the two subjects in which you will complete a capstone project in order to graduate.
What are English and math?
This is the term for a 4-year degree earned at a college or university.
What is a Bachelor's degree?
These classes, that are not core classes, are ones you get to choose.
What are electives?
This is how many credits you should have earned during your freshman year.
What is 6.5 credits?
This is how you learn to do a job while working with professionals from that field.
What is an apprenticeship?
These are things that may help a person qualify to receive a scholarship for college.
Financial need, GPA, sports, extra-curricular activities, first generation, ethnicity, special interests
This is the term for a two-year degree earned at a community college.
What is an Associate's degree?
This is how many credits you need to graduate from Alameda.
What is 23?
You can make up credit for a failed core class by doing one of these three things.
What is summer school?
What is Jeffco Virtual Academy?
What is credit recovery (senior year only!)
This is an opportunity to learn from professionals in a field while still in school. These can be paid or unpaid opportunities.
What is an internship?
This is the name of one UNIVERSITY in Colorado.
Metro State University
University of Colorado
University of Denver
University of Northern Colorado
Colorado State University
This is the term for the area of study a person focuses on in college.
What is a major/minor?
This type of class is what you will need one to two years of to be accepted into a four-year university and to be a more well-rounded global citizen.
What is World Language?
In addition to earning the correct number of credits in the correct categories, in order to graduate, Alameda also requires this sort of project to meet all graduation requirements.
What is a capstone?
This is one part of a resume.
What is objective, education, experience, references, skills?
These are two activities at Alameda (sports or clubs)
Answers will vary