Critical College Vocabulary

Financial Aid

Federal Grant

Institutional Grant
State Grant
Student Loan Dept

Associates Degree
Lower Division
Classes

Bachelors Degree
Upper Division
Classes
Undergraduate
Masters Degree

Graduate Student

Define these terms.

Financial Aid is 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.
A federal grant is an award of financial assistance from a federal
agency to a recipient to carry out a public purpose of support or
stimulation authorized by a law of the United States. Grants are
federal assistance to individuals, benefits or entitlements.
Institutional grants are all grants that do not come from the federal
government. Also called merit awards or merit scholarships, they can
be awarded based on academic achievement. Some are offered only
for those students with financial need.
'Government Grant' A financial award given by the federal, state or
local government to an eligible grantee. Government grants are not
expected to be repaid by the recipient.
Department specializing in student loans
An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded
by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, bachelor's
degreegranting colleges, and universities upon completion of a
course of study usually lasting two years.
Lower division courses are any course taken at a junior college or
community college or courses offered at the freshman and sophomore
level at a four-year college or university regardless of the title or
content of the course.
A bachelor's degree (also baccalaureate, from Modern Latin
baccalaureates) is usually earned for an undergraduate course of
study that normally requires three to five years of study (depending on
institution and field of study).
Upper division courses are courses offered at the junior level or
higher. By definition any course taken at a community college is not
upper division.
A student at a college or university who has not yet earned a
bachelor's or equivalent degree.
A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who
have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order
overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
A graduate student (or grad student) is a student who goes to the
school. Also, in British English, the phrase "postgraduate student" is
more common. Usually, students must have an undergraduate
(bachelor's) degree before beginning graduate school.

M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

PhD

Doctor of any field of study that isnt medicine

DVM

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

School Major
Selectivity

Field of study one wants to study in

Selectivity is measured by the percentage of students who are
admitted.

Critical College Vocabulary

Fraternity
Sorority

An organized society of men associated together in an environment of

companionship and brotherhood dedicated to the intellectual, physical,
moral, religious, and/or social development of its members.
A society for female students in a university or college, typically for
social purposes.

How many UC schools are in

California? _________
How many CSU school are in
California? ____23_____
How many UC schools are in
California? ____10_____
Name 5 Community Colleges in the
bay area?
1Cabrillo College
2Canada College
3Chabot College
4City College of San Francisco
5College of Alameda
Name 3 sorties?
1 Alpha Delta Pi -
2 Alpha Epsilon Phi -
3 Alpha Gamma Delta -

Name 3 Fraternities?
1Alpha Delta Gamma -
2Alpha Delta Phi -
3Alpha Epsilon Pi -

Name 4 Ivy League Schools?

1Brown University
2Columbia University
3Cornell University
4Harvard University
Name 5 Private Universities in
California?
1University of Southern California
2Stanford University
3Claremont McKenna College
4California Institute of Technology
5University of San Francisco