WorksheetsCollege & Career Vocabulary
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An award letter is official notification from a school where you have been accepted and outlines your financial aid award package.
award letter
benefits
scholarships
tuitions
_________ are any perks offered to employees in addition to salary. The most common benefits are medical, disability, and life insurance; retirement benefits; paid time off; and fringe benefit
award letter
benefits
scholarships
tuition
A grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.
award letter
benefits
scholarships
tuition
A sum of money charged for teaching or instruction by a school, college, or university.
award letter
benefits
scholarships
tuition
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletes from 1,268 North American institutions and conferences.
NCAA
dorms
taxes
professor
-A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution.
-A university or college hall of residence
NCAA
dorms
taxes
professor
A sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc. a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
NCAA
dorms
taxes
professor
A teacher of the highest rank in a college or university.
NCAA
dorms
taxes
professor
Any grant or scholarship, loan, or paid employment offered to help a student meet his/her college expenses. Such aid is usually provided by various sources such as federal and state agencies, colleges, high schools, foundations, and corporations.
financial aid
FAFSA
school counselor
SAT
Free Application for Federal Student Aid is a form completed by current and prospective college students (undergraduate and graduate) in the United States to determine their eligibility for student financial aid.
financial aid
FAFSA
school counselor
SAT
Listen to students' concerns about academic, emotional or social problems. Help students process their problems and plan goals and action. ... Work on academic boards to improve learning conditions.
financial aid
FAFSA
school counselor
SAT
-A test of a student's academic skills, used for admission to US colleges.
-Scholastic Assessment Test
-As defined as the Scholastic Assessment Test, now called the SAT Reasoning Test, which is a test that measures the reading, writing and math levels of high school juniors and seniors
financial aid
FAFSA
school counselor
SAT
A ________ is simply a specific subject that students can specialize in while aspiring to a college degree. Typically, between a third and half of the courses you take in college are in your major or related to it. ... In some majors, you prepare for a specific career
major
ACT
minor
application
-Entrance exam used by most colleges and universities to make admissions decisions
-American College Test
• Math
• Reading
• Science
English
• Writing (optional)
major
ACT
minor
application
An academic ________ is a college or university student's declared secondary academic discipline during their undergraduate studies. ... To obtain an academic ________, a total of three years of study at a university in a selected subject is the usual requirements
major
ACT
minor
application
The action of putting something into operation.
major
ACT
minor
application
A person with whom one works in a profession or business.
colleagues
class size
Common App
safety school
Refers to the number of students in a given course or classroom, specifically either (1) the number of students being taught by individual teachers in a course or classroom or (2) the average number of students being taught by teachers in a school, district, or education system.
colleagues
class size
Common App
safety school
Is an undergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to any of more than 800 member colleges and universities in 49 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Canada, China, and many European countries.
colleagues
class size
Common App
safety school
Is a college that you will almost certainly get into because your standardized test scores, class rank and high school grades are well above the average for admitted students. Also, safety schools will always have relatively high acceptance rates. (sometimes called a "back-up school")
colleagues
class size
Common App
safety school
One in which your academic credentials make you competitive for admission. Your GPA, standardized test scores, and class rank fall within the average range for that particular school. You have a very reasonable chance of gaining admission to a target school, but there are no guarantees.
target school
career school
GPA
salary
Essentially, a career college is a private or public institution that offers career education through a range of certifications and degrees in a variety of career-specific fields. (also known as technical or vocational schools)
target school
career school
GPA
salary
Essentially, a career college is a private or public institution that offers career education through a range of certifications and degrees in a variety of career-specific fields. (also known as technical or vocational schools)
target school
career school
GPA
salary
Calculated by adding all the numbered grades you've received and dividing them by the number of credits you've taken. In high school, it's simply a matter of tallying your grades and dividing that total by the number of classes.
target school
career school
GPA
salary
A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.
target school
career school
GPA
salary
A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.
interviews
resume
letter of recommendations
community college
A brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.
interviews
resume
letter of recommendations
community college
Is a letter, memorandum, or online form in which a writer (usually a person in a supervisory role) evaluates the skills, work habits, and achievements of an individual applying for a job, for admission to graduate school, or for some other professional position.
interviews
resume
letter of recommendations
community college
Sometimes called junior colleges, are two-year schools that provide affordable postsecondary education as a pathway to a four-year degree.
interviews
resume
letter of recommendations
community college
A four-year degree meaning it typically takes four years of full-time study to complete your bachelor's degree. In these four years, you will complete 120 semester credits or around 40 college courses. ... Bachelor degrees are also sometimes called baccalaureate degrees.
Bachelor's Degree
gap year
acceptance rate
supervisor
A period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between secondary school and higher education.
Bachelor's Degree
gap year
acceptance rate
supervisor
Is the rate at which applicants are accepted. It is calculated by dividing the number of accepted students by the number of total applicants. For example, if College A has 100,000 applicants and accepts 5,000 students, their acceptance rate is 5%.
Bachelor's Degree
gap year
acceptance rate
supervisor
A person who supervises a person or an activity.
Bachelor's Degree
gap year
acceptance rate
supervisor
The action or process of officially recognizing someone as having a particular status or being qualified to perform a particular activity.
accreditation
study abroad
internship
fee waiver
loans
Is the term given to a program, usually run through a university, which allows a student to live in a foreign country and attend a foreign university. ... Other programs simply provide a dorm or apartment for the student. There are also study abroad programs for high school students and college graduates.
accreditation
study abroad
internship
fee waiver
loans
The position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
accreditation
study abroad
internship
fee waiver
loans
Program initiated by a state or institution that allows specific individuals to have a “waiving” or a refrain from paying a portion of tuition/fees the students are traditionally charged. ... As a result, students who have received a waiver have a reduced cost of matriculation.
accreditation
study abroad
internship
fee waiver
loans
A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.
accreditation
study abroad
internship
fee waiver
loans
