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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Items preceded by an asterisk (*) represent definitions agreed to among publishers which do not appear on the CDS document but may be present on individual publishers’ surveys.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Academic advisement:</strong> Plan under which each student is assigned to a faculty member or a trained adviser, who, through regular meetings, helps the student plan and implement immediate and long-term academic and vocational goals.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Accelerated program:</strong> Completion of a college program of study in fewer than the usual number of years, most often by attending summer sessions and carrying extra courses during the regular academic term.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Admitted student:</strong> Applicant who is offered admission to a degree-granting program at your institution.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Adult student services:</strong> Admission assistance, support, orientation, and other services expressly for adults who have started college for the first time, or who are re-entering after a lapse of a few years.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>American Indian or Alaska native:</strong> A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Applicant (first-time, first year):</strong> An individual who has fulfilled the institution’s requirements to be considered for admission (including payment or waiving of the application fee, if any) and who has been notified of one of the following actions: admission, non-admission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution).</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Application fee:</strong> That amount of money that an institution charges for processing a student’s application for acceptance. This amount is <em>not</em> creditable toward tuition and required fees, nor is it refundable if the student is not admitted to the institution.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Asian or Pacific Islander:</strong> A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or Pacific Islands. This includes people from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, American Samoa, India, and Vietnam.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Associate degree:</strong> An award that normally requires at least two but less than four years of full-time equivalent college work</span></td>
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<td height="95" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Bachelor’s degree:</strong> An award (baccalaureate or equivalent degree, as determined by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education) that normally requires at least four years but <em>not</em> more than five years of full-time equivalent college-level work. This includes ALL bachelor’s degrees conferred in a five-year cooperative (work-study plan) program. (A cooperative plan provides for alternate class attendance and employment in business, industry, or government; thus, it allows students to combine actual work experience with their college studies.) Also, it includes bachelor’s degrees in which the normal four years of work are completed in three years.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Black, non-Hispanic:</strong> A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa (except those of Hispanic origin).</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Board (charges):</strong> Assume average cost for 19 meals per week or the maximum meal plan.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Books and supplies (costs):</strong> Average cost of books and supplies. Do not include unusual costs for special groups of students (e.g., engineering or art majors), unless they constitute the majority of students at your institution.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Calendar system:</strong> The method by which an institution structures most of its courses for the academic year.</span></td>
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<td height="76" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Career and placement services:</strong> A range of services, including (often) the following: coordination of visits of employers to campus; aptitude and vocational testing; interest inventories, personal counseling; help in resume writing, interviewing, launching the job search; listings for those students desiring employment and those seeking permanent positions; establishment of a permanent reference folder; career resource materials.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Carnegie units:</strong> One year of study or the equivalent in a secondary school subject.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Certificate:</strong> See Postsecondary award, certificate, or diploma.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Class rank:</strong> The relative numerical position of a student in his or her graduating class, calculated by the high school on the basis of grade-point average, whether weighted or unweighted.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>College-preparatory program:</strong> Courses in academic subjects (English, history and social studies, foreign languages, mathematics, science, and the arts) that stress preparation for college or university study.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Common Application:</strong> The standard application form distributed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals for a large number of private colleges who are members of the Common Application Group.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Commuter:</strong> A student who lives off campus in housing that is not owned by, operated by, or affiliated with the college. This category includes students who commute from home and students who have moved to the area to attend college.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Contact hour:</strong> A unit of measure that represents an hour of scheduled instruction given to students. Also referred to as clock hour.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Continuous basis (for program enrollment):</strong> A calendar system classification that is used by institutions that enroll students at any time during the academic year. For example, a cosmetology school or a word processing school might allow students to enroll and begin studies at various times, with no requirement that classes begin on a certain date.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Cooperative education program:</strong> A program that provides for alternate class attendance and employment in business, industry, or government.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Cooperative housing:</strong> College-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing in which students share room and board expenses and participate in household chores to reduce living expenses.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Counseling service:</strong> Activities designed to assist students in making plans and decisions related to their education, career, or personal development.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Credit:</strong> Recognition of attendance or performance in an instructional activity (course or program) that can be applied by a recipient toward the requirements for a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Credit course:</strong> A course that, if successfully completed, can be applied toward the number of courses required for achieving a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Credit hour:</strong> A unit of measure representing an hour (50 minutes) of instruction over a 15-week period in a semester or trimester system or a 10-week period in a quarter system. It is applied toward the total number of hours needed for completing the requirements of a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Cross-registration:</strong> A system whereby students enrolled at one institution may take courses at another institution without having to apply to the second institution.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Deferred admission:</strong> The practice of permitting admitted students to postpone enrollment, usually for a period of one academic term or one year.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Degree:</strong> An award conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Degree-seeking students:</strong> Students enrolled in courses for credit who are recognized by the institution as seeking a degree or formal award. At the undergraduate level, this is intended to include students enrolled in vocational or occupational programs.</span></td>
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<td height="76" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Differs by program (calendar system):</strong> A calendar system classification that is used by institutions that have occupational/vocational programs of varying length. These schools may enroll students at specific times depending on the program desired. For example, a school might offer a two-month program in January, March, May, September, and November; and a three-month program in January, April, and October.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Diploma:</strong> See <strong>Postsecondary award, certificate, or diploma.</strong></span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Distance learning:</strong> An option for earning course credit at off-campus locations via cable television, internet, satellite classes, videotapes, correspondence courses, or other means.</span></td>
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<td width="100%" height="76"><span style="background-color:Yellow"><span style="color:Navy"><strong>Doctor’s degree-professional practice:</strong> A doctor’s degree that is conferred upon completion of a program providing the knowledge and skills for the recognition, credential, or license required for professional practice. The degree is awarded after a period of study such that the total time to the degree, including both pre-professional and professional preparation, equals at least six full-time equivalent academic years. Some of these degrees were formerly classified as “first-professional” and may include: Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.); Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.); Law (L.L.B. or J.D.); Medicine (M.D.); Optometry (O.D.); Osteopathic Medicine (D.O); Pharmacy (Pharm.D.); Podiatry (D.P.M., Pod.D., D.P.); or, Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), and others, as designated by the awarding institution.</span></span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Dual enrollment:</strong> A program through which high school students may enroll in college courses while still enrolled in high school. Students are not required to apply for admission to the college in order to participate.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>External degree program:</strong> A program of study in which students earn credits toward a degree through independent study, college courses, proficiency examinations, and personal experience. External degree programs require minimal or no classroom attendance.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Extracurricular activities (as admission factor):</strong> Special consideration in the admissions process given for participation in both school and nonschool-related activities of interest to the college, such as clubs, hobbies, student government, athletics, performing arts, etc.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>First-time student:</strong> A student attending any institution for the first time at the level enrolled. Includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended a postsecondary institution for the first time at the same level in the prior summer term. Also includes students who entered with advanced standing (college credit earned before graduation from high school).</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Full-time student (undergraduate):</strong> A student enrolled for 12 or more semester credits, 12 or more quarter credits, or 24 or more contact hours a week each term.</span></td>
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<td height="76" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Grade-point average (academic high school GPA):</strong> The sum of grade points a student has earned in secondary school divided by the number of courses taken. The most common system of assigning numbers to grades counts four points for an A, three points for a B, two points for a C, one point for a D, and no points for an E or F. Unweighted GPA’s assign the same weight to each course. Weighting gives students additional points for their grades in advanced or honors courses.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Health services:</strong> Free or low cost on-campus primary and preventive health care available to students.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>High school diploma or recognized equivalent:</strong> A document certifying the successful completion of a prescribed secondary school program of studies, or the attainment of satisfactory scores on the Tests of General Educational Development (GED), or another state-specified examination.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Hispanic:</strong> A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Honors program:</strong> Any special program for very able students offering the opportunity for educational enrichment, independent study, acceleration, or some combination of these.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Independent study:</strong> Academic work chosen or designed by the student with the approval of the department concerned, under an instructor’s supervision, and usually undertaken outside of the regular classroom structure.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>In-state tuition:</strong> The tuition charged by institutions to those students who meet the state’s or institution’s residency requirements.</span></td>
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<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>International student:</strong> See <strong>Nonresident alien.</strong></span></p>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Internship:</strong> Any short-term, supervised work experience usually related to a student’s major field, for which the student earns academic credit. The work can be full- or part-time, on- or off-campus, paid or unpaid.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Learning center:</strong> Center offering assistance through tutors, workshops, computer programs, or audiovisual equipment in reading, writing, math, and skills such as taking notes, managing time, taking tests.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Legal services:</strong> Free or low cost legal advice for a range of issues (personal and other).</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Liberal arts/career combination:</strong> Program in which a student earns undergraduate degrees in two separate fields, one in a liberal arts major and the other in a professional or specialized major, whether on campus or through cross‑registration.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="background-color:Yellow"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Master’s degree:</strong> <span style="color:Navy">An award that requires the successful completion of a program of study of generally one or two full-time equivalent academic years of work beyond the bachelor's degree. Some of these degrees, such as those in Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav) that were formerly classified as "first-professional", may require more than two full-time equivalent academic years of work.</span></span></span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Minority student center:</strong> Center with programs, activities, and/or services intended to enhance the college experience of students of color.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Nonresident alien:</strong> A person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Open admission:</strong> Admission policy under which virtually all secondary school graduates or students with GED equivalency diplomas are admitted without regard to academic record, test scores, or other qualifications.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Part-time student (undergraduate):</strong> A student enrolled for fewer than 12 credits per semester or quarter, or fewer than 24 contact hours a week each term.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Personal counseling</strong>: One-on-one or group counseling with trained professionals for students who want to explore personal, educational, or vocational issues.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Post-baccalaureate certificate:</strong> An award that requires completion of an organized program of study requiring 18 credit hours beyond the bachelor’s; designed for persons who have completed a baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of master.</span></td>
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<span style="color:#000088"><strong>Postsecondary award, certificate, or diploma:</strong> Includes the following three IPEDS definitions for postsecondary awards, certificates, and diplomas of varying durations and credit/contact hour requirements— </span>
<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><em>Less Than 1 Academic Year:</em> Requires completion of an organized program of study at the postsecondary level (below the baccalaureate degree) in less than 1 academic year (2 semesters or 3 quarters) or in less than 900 contact hours by a student enrolled full-time.</span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><em>At Least 1 But Less Than 2 Academic Years:</em> Requires completion of an organized program of study at the postsecondary level (below the baccalaureate degree) in at least 1 but less than 2 full-time equivalent academic years, or designed for completion in at least 30 but less than 60 credit hours, or in at least 900 but less than 1,800 contact hours.</span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><em>At Least 2 But Less Than 4 Academic Years:</em> Requires completion of an organized program of study at the postsecondary level (below the baccalaureate degree) in at least 2 but less than 4 full-time equivalent academic years, or designed for completion in at least 60 but less than 120 credit hours, or in at least 1,800 but less than 3,600 contact hours.</span></p>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Private for-profit institution:</strong> A private institution in which the individual(s) or agency in control receives compensation, other than wages, rent, or other expenses for the assumption of risk.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Private nonprofit institution:</strong> A private institution in which the individual(s) or agency in control receives no compensation, other than wages, rent, or other expenses for the assumption of risk. These include both independent nonprofit schools and those affiliated with a religious organization.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Proprietary institution:</strong> See <strong>Private for-profit institution.</strong></span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Public institution:</strong> An educational institution whose programs and activities are operated by publicly elected or appointed school officials, and which is supported primarily by public funds.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Quarter calendar system:</strong> A calendar system in which the academic year consists of three sessions called quarters of about 12 weeks each. The range may be from 10 to 15 weeks. There may be an additional quarter in the summer.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Race/ethnicity:</strong> Category used to describe groups to which individuals belong, identify with, or belong in the eyes of the community. The categories do not denote scientific definitions of anthropological origins. A person may be counted in only one group.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Religious counseling:</strong> One-on-one or group counseling with trained professionals for students who want to explore religious problems or issues.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Remedial services:</strong> Instructional courses designed for students deficient in the general competencies necessary for a regular postsecondary curriculum and educational setting.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Required fees:</strong> Fixed sum charged to students for items not covered by tuition and required of such a large proportion of all students that the student who does NOT pay is the exception. Do not include application fees or optional fees such as lab fees or parking fees.</span></td>
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<td height="76" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Resident alien or other eligible non-citizen:</strong> A person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who has been admitted as a legal immigrant for the purpose of obtaining permanent resident alien status (and who holds either an alien registration card [Form I-551 or I-151], a Temporary Resident Card [Form I-688], or an Arrival-Departure Record [Form I-94] with a notation that conveys legal immigrant status, such as Section 207 Refugee, Section 208 Asylee, Conditional Entrant Parolee or Cuban-Haitian).</span></td>
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<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Room and board (charges)—on campus:</strong> Assume double occupancy in institutional housing and 19 meals per week (or maximum meal plan).</span></p>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Student-designed major:</strong> A program of study based on individual interests, designed with the assistance of an adviser.</span></td>
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<td height="76" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>*Summer session:</strong> A summer session is shorter than a regular semester and not considered part of the academic year. It is not the third term of an institution operating on a trimester system or the fourth term of an institution operating on a quarter calendar system. The institution may have 2 or more sessions occurring in the summer months. Some schools, such as vocational and beauty schools, have year-round classes with no separate summer session.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Teacher certification program:</strong> Program designed to prepare students to meet the requirements for certification as teachers in elementary, middle/junior high, and secondary schools.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Transfer applicant:</strong> An individual who has fulfilled the institution’s requirements to be considered for admission (including payment or waiving of the application fee, if any) and who has previously attended another college or university and earned college-level credit.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Transfer student:</strong> A student entering the institution for the first time but known to have previously attended a postsecondary institution at the same level (e.g., undergraduate). The student may transfer with or without credit.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Transportation (costs):</strong> Assume two round trips to student’s hometown per year for students in institutional housing or daily travel to and from your institution for commuter students.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Tuition:</strong> Amount of money charged to students for instructional services. Tuition may be charged per term, per course, or per credit.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Unit:</strong> a standard of measurement representing hours of academic instruction (e.g., semester credit, quarter credit, contact hour).</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Weekend college:</strong> A program that allows students to take a complete course of study and attend classes only on weekends.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>White, non-Hispanic:</strong> A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East (except those of Hispanic origin).</span></td>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Financial Aid Definitions</strong></span></span></p>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Awarded aid:</strong> The dollar amounts offered to financial aid applicants.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>External scholarships and grants:</strong> Scholarships and grants received from outside (private) sources that students bring with them (e.g., Kiwanis, National Merit scholarships). The institution may process paperwork to receive the dollars, but it has no role in determining the recipient or the dollar amount awarded.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Financial aid applicant:</strong> Any applicant who submits <strong>any one of</strong> the institutionally required financial aid applications/forms, such as the FAFSA.</span></td>
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<td height="57" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Indebtedness:</strong> Aggregate dollar amount borrowed through any loan programs (federal, state, subsidized, unsubsidized, private, etc.; excluding parent loans) while the student was enrolled at an institution. Student loans co-signed by a parent are assumed to be the responsibility of the student and <strong>should</strong> be included.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Institutional scholarships and grants</strong>: Endowed scholarships, annual gifts and tuition funded grants for which the institution determines the recipient.</span></td>
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<td height="19" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Financial need:</strong> As determined by your institution using the federal methodology and/or your institution's own standards.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Need-based aid:</strong> College-funded or college-administered award from institutional, state, federal, or other sources for which a student must have financial need to qualify. This includes both institutional and noninstitutional student aid (grants, jobs, and loans).</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Need-based scholarship or grant aid:</strong> Scholarships and grants from institutional, state, federal, or other sources for which a student must have financial need to qualify.</span></td>
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<p align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Need-based self-help aid:</strong> Loans and jobs <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>from institutional, state, federal, or other sources for which a student must demonstrate financial need to qualify.</span></p>
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<td height="76" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Non-need-based scholarship or grant aid:</strong> Scholarships and grants, gifts, or merit-based aid from institutional, state, federal, or other sources (including unrestricted funds or gifts and endowment income) awarded solely on the basis of academic achievement, merit, or any other non-need-based reason. When reporting questions H1 and H2, non-need-based aid that is used to meet need should be counted as need-based aid.</span></td>
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<span style="color:#000088"><strong>Note: Suggested order of precedence for counting non-need money as need-based: </strong></span>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need institutional grants</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need tuition waivers</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need athletic awards</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in;tab-stops:.5in" class="MsoFooter" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need federal grants</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need state grants</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need outside grants</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need student loans</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need parent loans</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.10in" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088">Non-need work</span></p>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Non-need-based self-help aid:</strong> Loans and jobs from institutional, state, or other sources for which a student need not demonstrate financial need to qualify.</span></td>
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<td height="38" width="100%" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1" align="justify"><span style="color:#000088"><strong>Work study and employment</strong>: Federal and state work study aid, and any employment packaged by your institution in financial aid awards.</span></td>
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<td height="15" width="100%" align="justify"><span style="color: #000088; font-size: 10pt">Revised: November 2009</span></td>
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