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High School College & Career The Struggle Bonus Question: 500 pts. College Jeopardy

High School: 100 Question: True or false: Only students with good grades in high school get into college? Answer: False: Colleges look at grades from all four years of high school. However, colleges also like students who have done many things both inside and outside of school. Experience is the key!

High School: 200 Question: True or False: Your family has to have a lot of money for you to go to college? Answer False: There is plenty of money out in the world that will help you pay college. Financial Aid, Scholarships and Loans can all give you money for college.

High School: 300 Question: How many credits do you need to graduate high school? Answer 44

High School: 400 Question: How many Regents do you need to graduate high school? Answer You need 5 Regents to graduate high school. Bonus: How many Regents do you need to graduate with an Advanced Regents Diploma? You need 9 Regents to graduate with an Advanced Regents Diploma

College and Career:100 Question: True or False: You have to know what you want to study in college before you go? Answer False: The majority of students at all colleges change their majors at least once.

College and Career: 200 Question: How many years does it take to earn a bachelor’s degree? Answer It takes four years to earn a bachelor’s degree

College and Career:300 Question: True or False: By 2014, nearly 75% of jobs will require a post-secondary degree? Answer True: Companies want students who have a college degree.

College and Career: 400 Question: True or False: Over a lifetime, someone with a bachelor’s degree can earn 75% more than someone with only a High School Diploma? Answer True: On average a person with a bachelor’s degree will earn $51,000 annually compared to $31,000 annually earned by a person with only a High School Diploma.

The Struggle: 100 Question: True or False: Undocumented immigrant students can access financial aid to pay for college. Answer False: Currently in NYS undocumented students cannot access financial aid to pay for college.

The Struggle: 200 Question: True or False. A woman with a Master’s Degree will make less money than a man with a bachelor’s degree. Answer True. On average, a woman with a Master’s degree will earn $51,400 annually compared to a man with a bachelors who on average will earn $60,000.

The Struggle: 300 Question: True or False: It costs six times more money to put a student in jail than it costs to put a student in a CUNY college. Answer True: It costs $44,000 annually to keep a person incarcerated meanwhile it costs approximately $7,000 to put a student through CUNY. If we spent our resources on education and not prison, more young people would be in college and not in jail.

The Struggle: 400 Question: True or False: Nationally, only 27% of all college going students are Black and Latino? Answer True: Nationally, only 14% of all college enrolled students are Black and 12% of all college enrolled students are Latino.

Bonus Question: 500 pts. Question: Name five CUNY schools. Answer Baruch, Brooklyn, City College, The Sophie Davis, College of Staten Island, Hunter, John Jay, Lehman, Medgar Evers, City Tech, Queens, York, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx CC, Guttman CC, Hostos CC, Kingsborough CC, LaGuardia CC, Queensborough CC.