Critical College Vocabulary

Define these terms.

Upper Division
Classes

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.
In the United States, federal grants are economic aid issued by the
United States government out of the general federal revenue. 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.
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.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services is proud to
be the managing partner for Grants.gov.
Student debt is a form of debt that is owed by an attending, withdrawn
or graduated student to a lending institution. The lending is often of a
student loan, but debts may be owed to the school if the student has
dropped classes and withdrawn from the school.
A degree granted after a two-year course of study, especially by a
community or junior college.
By definition any course taken at a community college is not upper
division. 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
baccalaureatus) 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).
UDGE (300-level and above) are not to be taken sooner than the
semester in which junior standing (60 units) is achieved. Note that
completion of the Lower Division writing requirement is a prerequisite for
enrollment inUpper Division General Education courses.

Undergraduate

A student at a college or university who has not yet earned a bachelor's or

equivalent degree.

Financial Aid

Federal Grant

Institutional Grant
State Grant

Student Loan Dept

Associates Degree

Lower Division
Classes

Bachelors Degree

Masters Degree

Graduate Student

A master's degree is the first level of graduate study. To apply for a

master's degree you usually must already hold an undergraduate
degree(a bachelor's degree). A master's degree typically requires a year
and one-half to two years of full-time study.
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.

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M.D.
PhD

MD stands for "Medical Doctor," and is the most common type of degree
earned by doctors who practice medicine in the United States .
A doctorate in any discipline except medicine, or sometimes theology.

School Major

A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from

veterinarian or veterinary surgeon, is a professional who practices
veterinary medicine by treating disease, disorder, and injury in non-human
animals.
Some students choose a major when first enrolling as an undergraduate
at a school, others choose one later. Some schools even disallow
students from declaring a major until the end of their second academic
year. A student who declares two academic majors is said to have a
double major.

Selectivity

The quality of carefully choosing someone or something as the best or most

suitable.

DVM

Fraternity
Sorority

A group of people sharing a common profession or interests.

A society for female students in a university or college, typically for social
purposes.

How many UC schools are in California? ____10_____

How many CSU school are in California? ___24______
Name 5 Community Colleges in the bay area?
1.De anza college
2.Orange coast
3.santa barbara city
4.Diablo valley
5.Pasadena
Name 3 sorties?
1.Alpha Xi Delta
2.Alpha Kappa Alpha
3.Sigma Phi Omega

Name 3 Fraternities?
1.Pi Kappa Phi
2.Tau Kappa Epsilon
3.Sigma Nu
Name 4 Ivy League Schools?
1.Brown university
2.Columbia university
3.Harvard university
4.Cornell university

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Name 5 Private Universities in California?
1.Stanford university
2.National university
3.University of San Francisco
4.University of Redlands
5.Concordia university