Financial Aid
This is the application students need to complete to get federal financial aid.
What is FAFSA?
Some schools offer this option to learn if you were accepted at an earlier date if you apply before a specific deadline.
What is early decision?
This type of school typically offers two-year degrees in general education for transfer or specific career degrees and training.
What is a community college?
The selection you make of which classes, program and what degree you will eventually receive from the college or university.
What is a major?
A person with exceptional knowledge of a certain subject whom one can go to for extra help.
What is a tutor?
This is a type of financial aid that is based on need and doesn't need to be repaid if school is completed.
What is a grant?
An amount of money required to submit with your application.
What is an application fee?
A secondary school teaching a skilled trade.
What is a vocational or trade school?
This is a secondary course of study that you may choose in addition to your primary program.
What is a minor?
This is a person in the school that can provide support with registering for the right classes, meeting graduation requirements, and other areas of academic support.
Who is a counselor or advisor?
This is a merit-based form of financial aid that can come from a school or outside organization and sometimes requires an essay.
What is a scholarship?
These are the two tests commonly used to apply for an undergraduate degree, although not every school requires them.
This type of university does not receive state funding and is funded by donors and tuition.
What is a private university?
This is where you can find information on what programs a school offers, what classes you would have to take, and additional information for getting into a course of study.
What is a course catalog?
An office in many schools that helps students with food, financial needs, clothing, and other support.
What is a Basic Needs office?
A Federal program that allows students to work on campus in exchange for part of their tuition and fees.
What is Federal Work Study?
This is a record of all of the classes taken in high school or in a secondary school which is used in the application process.
What is a transcript?
An institution of learning of the highest level which is authorized to award both undergraduate and graduate degrees
What is a university?
This document, usually given on the first day of class, explains classroom policies, attendance policies, and assignments for the class.
What is a syllabus?
This building on campus often provides more than books, including access to printers, study rooms, computers to loan, and support with research.
What is the library?
A California grant that waives the enrollment fees and tuition for eligible California residents attending California Community College.
What is California Promise Grant or Board of Governors Fee Waiver?
An undergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to over 1,000 member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
What is the Common App?
These schools are partially funded by the state and managed by state employees.
What are public universities?
This is something required as a prior condition for something else to happen. (A lower level class must be taken to take higher level class….example: Biology 1 before Biology 2)
What is a prerequisite?
This office provides medical support for students and is included in tuition and fees.
What is the health center?