Student Lingo
BLANK is a professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work related to a student’s field of study or career interest.
Internship
What does FAFSA stand for?
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
The BLANK is an entrance exam used by most colleges and universities to make admissions decisions.
SAT or ACT
(Scholastic Aptitude Test or American College Testing)
BLANK is a student who lives off-campus and drives or takes public transportation to class.
Commuter
This is a permanent academic record of a student at college. It may show courses taken, grades received, academic status and honors received.
Transcript
Campus housing where full-time students live within close distance of the academic buildings.
Domitories (Dorms) or residence halls
BLANK provides part-time jobs for college students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses. These are federally or state-funded.
Work-Study
The BLANK test acts as both a practice test for students who will be taking the SAT for college admissions and as a way for the Collage Board to determine National Merit Scholarship Finalists.
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT)
Professors and instructors who teach and/or conduct research.
Faculty
Professors and teaching assistants schedule time outside of class to meet with students. BLANK are times when you can meet with your professors and teaching assistants to discuss the material being presented in class or other related interests you have.
Office hours
Students are able to earn a 2 year degree while paying low tuition costs, and then transfer to a university to complete the two additional years of college needed to earn a bachelor’s degree. Many are very affordable; this is why many students opt to take their general education requirements at a BLANK.
Community college
This college money is for undocumented individuals
Washington College Grant (formerly known as the State Need Grant) and the College Bound Scholarship
Eligibility: Must have graduated from a Washington high school or obtained a GED® (or will do so before beginning college) Must have lived in Washington for three years prior to, and continuously since, earning a high school diploma or equivalent
Washington Application for State Financial Aid (WASFA)
A platform that allows students to apply to almost 900 schools in a streamlined way.
Common App or Common Application
This term is used to describes graduates or former members of a particular school, organization or program.
Alumni
A formal graduation ceremony that celebrates recent graduates of the institution with their family and friends.
Commencement
An outline of the important information about a course/class. Written by the professor or instructor, it usually includes important dates, assignments, expectations and policies specific to that course. Some are quite lengthy.
Syllabus
BLANKS are placed on a student account when a student needs to meet with an advisor or pay an outstanding bill. Having a BLANK on your account can keep you from registering for classes, requesting transcripts, making additional changes to your account or receiving financial aid.
Holds
BLANK is a program that allows 11th and 12th grade students enrolled in a WA State public high school to take college courses at Washington's 34 community and technical colleges.
Running Start
BLANK are staff members assigned to students in their department. They help students choose majors and minors, design a course of study and help ensure students fulfill graduation requirements.
Academic advisor
An exam given approximately halfway through a course term (semester or quarter) that generally covers all lecture, reading and discussion material presented so far.
Midterm
Usually a two-year degree awarded to students who complete community or technical college requirements.
Associate Degree
This law governs how colleges protect and share student information. This ensures that no information that can identify a student is released without the written consent from an 18 year old or older student or parent.
Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
The date by which prospective students must submit their applications to be most strongly considered, usually for admissions and scholarships.
Priority date
This is the administrative position that is second to the president of the school. The position and responsibilities of the BLANK vary among schools. Generally, this person oversees all educational affairs and activities. This can be anything from working with academic personnel (like the dean of your college) to handling the operations of the library.
BLANK is a program you take in a different country to develop foreign language skills or to improve your ability to work productively with other cultures.
Study Abroad