Financial Aid
Applying to Colleges
Personal Statements
Pop Culture
100

FAFSA (Tell me what the acronym stands for)

What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?

100

Website that allows you to apply to multiple colleges at once.

100

Number of prompts you can choose from to write your Personal Statement.

What is 7?

100
Social media app where users can post short form videos.

What is Tiktok?

200
Jonathan's goal amount for you all to have to pay out of pocket or take out in loans for college.

What is $0?

200

The categories for your list of dream colleges. There are 4.

What are Safety, Target, Reach, and Financial Safety?

200

Maximum word count for your Personal Statement.

What is 650?

200

Jordan Peele's 3rd feature film starring Daniel Kaluuya.

What is NOPE?

300

Types of financial aid that you don't have to pay back. (There are two responses).

What are Scholarships and Grants?

300

Someone whose parents attended and/or graduated from the institution to which the student is applying.

What is a Legacy Student?

300

The purpose of a Personal Statement.

What is to give insight to who you are as a student outside of your grades, test scores, and extracurriculars?

300

This artist just dropped her 7th solo album.

Who is Beyonce?

400

A federal program providing undergraduate and graduate students with part-time employment during the school year.

What is Work Study?

400

These schools are a considered a "reach" school for everyone applying.

What are schools with low acceptance rates?

400

Writing technique that allows the reader to experience details of the story through actions, sensory details, words, or the expression of characters' emotions, as opposed to through the writer's own description of events

What is Show Don't Tell?

400

Film that tells the story of a tiny shell who searches for his long-lost family.

What is Marcel The Shell With Shoes On?

500

Loan that does not accrue interest.

What is Subsidized Loan?

500

Program that allows Boston residents attend local community colleges for free.

What is Tuition-Free Community College Plan?
500

Jonathan's Personal Statement topic.

What is the experience of taking a writing course during a summer pre-college program at Skidmore College?

500

Jonathan's favorite artist.

Who is Rihanna?