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Most often, these must be sent to colleges directly from the testing agency.
What are ACT and SAT test scores?
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What is the highest score you can achieve on each content section and the composite of the ACT?
Uses your highest scores across multiple test dates to calculate your best combined composite score.
What is a SuperScore?
The term used to describe colleges that do not require submission of ACT or SAT test scores
What is Test Optional?
College admission tests covering individual subjects (there are about 20 different tests available) that are each one hour in length and are required or recommended by some colleges/universities.
What are SAT Subject Tests?
This social-networking website, founded in 2004, has over one billion active users and can facilitate targeted networking.
What is Facebook?
The act of meeting new people in a business or social context
What is networking?
Often termed “elevator pitch” and used to make a great first impression with strangers or potential networking contacts
What is a 30 second pitch?
An online resource (Dept. of Labor Statistics) that has detailed descriptions of specific job titles, salaries, skills utilized, education required, and current market viability
What is O*NET?
A strategic and intentional conversation with another person in which facts or opinions are sought about a specific topic.
What is an informational interview?
Usually includes tuition, room and board, books, travel, and miscellaneous expenses related to college
What is the Cost of Attendance (COA)?
An arrangement by which a student combines employment and college study as a means of paying for college (“learn as you earn”)
What is Work-Study
The federal government, colleges and universities, and other private sources
What/who are the main sources of financial aid that help students and their families pay for college?
A form that must be completed by all applicants for federal student aid
What is the FAFSA: (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
Financial Aid given to students who have demonstrated financial need, which is calculated by subtracting the student’s expected family contribution from a college’s total costs.
What is Need- based Financial Aid
The application form that is used by about 500 colleges and universities (mostly private) and will become available on August 1, 2014 for your graduating class
What is the Common Application?
Grades in college prep courses, strength of curriculum, and admission test scores (ACT, SAT)
What are the top three factors in college admissions (as reported by colleges and universities)
This document enables college representatives to evaluate you in the context of your high school.
What is the Aspen High School Profile?
Application form (including essays), AHS transcript, AHS Profile, admission test scores, decision plan, school reports/counselor recommendation, teacher recommendations, community member recommendation
What constitutes/are the parts of a completed college application?
Submission of these forms should prevent senioritis.
What are the Mid-Year and Final Reports (these require submission of updated transcripts and reporting of behavioral violations to colleges after you have submitted your application or been admitted; colleges may rescind admissions due to unsatisfactory Mid-Year/Final Reports).
This part/These parts of the college application enable(s) you to share your personal story and thoughts as well as highlight areas not covered in the rest of the college application.
What are college application essays?
These types of occupations in the Career Interest Profiler frequently involve working with forms, designs, and patterns. They often require self- expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
What are artistic occupations?
These types of occupations (Career Interest Profiler) frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of these occupations require working outside and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
What are Realistic occupations
These types of occupations (Career Interest Profiler) frequently involve working with ideas and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
What are Investigative occupations?
By understanding this assessment (completed through Naviance), you can gain important insights into your educational, career, and relationship preferences.
What is the “Do What You Are” personality trait assessment?
Fall Break, Spring Break, Ex. Ed. Week, Thanksgiving Break, (in conjunction with) family trips, as an add-on to sports or other extracurricular activities, Summer Break (late August is best)
What are great times for college visits?
Size, Location, Academic Environment, Academic Programs/Majors, Student Life, Admission Difficulty, Cost/Availability of Financial Aid
What are the college qualities/characteristics that most students consider in constructing their college lists?
Your grade trends, strength of curriculum, academic strengths and weaknesses, elective choices, and interests
What does your transcript reveal about you as a student?
The college(s) that will "challenge you appropriately, open your eyes to new ways of thinking, and help you develop and broaden your talents as you take your place in the world ahead.” Willard Dix, former admissions officer at Amherst College and counselor at University of Chicago Laboratory High School
What is/are your "best fit" college(s)?
Many students state that these had the greatest impact on deciding which colleges to apply to and where to attend college.
What are college visits? (Get your feet on college campuses!)
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This type of knowledge provides the foundation for post-secondary (college) and career planning and will make the post-secondary search and application process less stressful.
What is self-knowledge?