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College Week Vocab
AVID College Week
Term | Definition |
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Undergraduate | A college or university student who has not yet received a bachelor or similar degree. |
Graduate Student | A student who continues studies after graduation. |
Alumni | An alumnus or alumna who is a graduate of a school, college, or university. |
Admission | The act of admitting or allowing to enter. |
Bachelor's Degree | An academy degree earned for an undergraduate course of study or major that usually lasts four years. |
Associate's Degree | An undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and bachelor's degree-grantings. |
ACT | A standardized test for high school achievements and college admissions in the United States produced by ACT. |
SAT | The nation's most widely used in college admission exam. Indicator of how people will perform in college. |
Transcript | Copy of a student's permanent academic record |
Financial Aid | Money to support you in college. |
Major | Where some students choose a major when first enrolling as an undergraduate at a school,and others choose one after beginning their studies. |
Credits | Where all courses are usually the same number of hours, often meeting every day, students earn one credit for a course that lasts all year or semester. |
Public College | A college opened to the public. |
Private College | Not administered by local, state or national governments. They retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part of by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public funding. |