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College Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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ACT/SAT | standardized college entrance exams |
Dorm | a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semi private rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas |
Major | primary focus of study |
Minor | secondary focus of study |
AP | courses equate to a first year college level course |
Pre-AP | courses are designed to teach students the skills necessary to be successful in Junior and Senior level high school |
FAFSA | is a form that can be prepared annually by current and prospective college students in the United States to determine their eligibility for student financial aid |
Master's Degree | a second-cycle academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice |
Associate Degree | a degree granted after a two-year course of study, especially by a community or junior college |
Financial Aid | grant or scholarship, loan, or paid employment offered to help a student meet his/her college expenses |
Private College/University | independent school that sets its own policies and goals, and is privately funded |
Bachelor's Degree | undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years |
GPA | typically calculated by adding all the numbered grades you've received and dividing them by the number of credits you've taken |
Work Study | provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses |
Community College | a nonresidential junior college offering courses to people living in a particular area |
Graduate | relating to, or engaged in studies beyond the first or bachelor's degree |
Undergraduate | a student at a college or university who has not yet earned a bachelor's or equivalent degree |
Credit Hours (HS/College) | unit of measuring educational CREDIT, usually based on the number of classroom hours per week throughout a term |
Grant | non-repayable funds or products disbursed or gifted by one party, often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient |
Loan | sum of money borrowed from a financial institution or bank by an individual or entity, for a reason, that requires repayment along with the interest after the term expires, for which it is repaid |
Scholarship | a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement. |
Tuition | a sum of money charged for teaching or instruction by a school, college, or university |
Room and Board | the cost associated with the place where you live and the meals that you eat on a college campus |
Public University | is predominantly funded by public means (taxes) through a national or subnational government |
HBCU | a college or university that was originally founded to educate students of African-American descent |
Liberal Arts | academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects |
Technical/Junior College | an educational institution that offers two years of studies corresponding to those in the first two years of a four-year college and that often offers technical, vocational, and liberal studies to the adults of a community |
Student to Teacher Ratio | is the number of students who attend a school or university divided by the number of teachers in the institution; smaller the ratio the smaller the classes |
In State | refers to students who live in the state of the public college |
Out of State | refers to students who do not live in the state of the public college |
Student Organization | is a society or an organization, operated by students at a university or a college institution, whose membership typically consists only of students or alumni |
Acceptance requirements | a list of criteria that a student must submit with their college application in order to be accepted to a college or university |