Admission Terminology
Non-SAT numbers
4 letter College Knowledge
College Geography
Ivy Leagues
100

It means "beginning", but is used at the END of four years of college study.

What is Commencement?

100

The maximum number of pins one can knock down in a standard 10-pin bowling game.

What is 120?

100

This State university in 1970 was the site of National Guard shootings of student protesters.

What is Kent?

100

The distance  from WCSU to ECSU is 84 miles, but the distance from this state's westernmost state university to its easternmost state university is nearly 800 miles.

What is Texas?

(UT El Paso to UT Medical Center in Galveston is 794 miles)

100

It's the only Ivy League school founded for the purpose of teaching Native Americans.

What is Dartmouth?

200

The term for admitting students soon after each applies to college, irrespective of deadlines.

What is Rolling Admission?
200

Between zero and 10, the number of times Babe Ruth stole home?

What is 10?

200

This four letter college has won the most NCAA basketball championships.

What is UCLA?

200

It's the northernmost of these three Universities: UC Santa Cruz, Vanderbilt, Wichita State

What is UC Santa Cruz?

200

It's the only state-funded university among the eight Ivy League Schools.

What is Cornell?

(four of its seven colleges are New York state colleges)

300

One of two adjectives by which GPA is compared by admissions committees.

What is Weighted?  

What is Unweighted?

300

The number of pockets for a ball to rest on a roulette wheel.

What is 37?

What is 38?

300

The only two four-letter states starting and ending in vowels.

What is Iowa? AND What is Ohio?  (half credit for getting one)

300

It's the 11th largest state, by square miles, and the only one of the largest 20 that's east of the Mississippi River. GLCC is in this state.

What is Michigan? (96,000 sq mi, 40,000 of which is water)(Wyoming is 10th.  Minnesota is 12th) GLCC = Great Lakes Christian College

300

It's the westernmost of the eight Ivy League schools.

What is Cornell?

400

Among NCAA colleges, the varsity sport that loses the most money.

What is football?

400

The number of land-based area codes in Southern New England

What is 8 ?

400

This four-letter NORTH Carolina school has produced actors Grant Gustin, Mike Trainor, And Barrett Wilbert-Weed.

What is Elon?

400

Of these Universities, it's the one with the highest annual snowfall:  University of Minnesota; Univ. of Northern Arizona; University of Vermont (Burlington)


What is University of Northern Arizona?(100 inches a year)


400

It's the Ivy League School founded by Benjamin Franklin. 

What is UPENN?

500

The degree one holds after successfully completing four years of undergraduate work in Organic Chemistry.

What is a B.S. (Bachelor's of Science)?

500

To the nearest million, the number of people who can hold a unique 7-digit phone number.

What is 9?

500

This "four letter" New England college has produced famous sculptors. 

What is RISD?

500

This historically black college is located in "the music city."

What is Fisk?

500

It's not an Ivy , but its' students have higher average SAT scores than any other Northeast University

What is MIT?