Brought to you by the Youth Leaders of the SSC

1. Brought to you by the Youth Leaders of the SSC

2. College Jeopardy

3. 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! Back

4. 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. Back

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

6. 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 Back

7. 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. Back

8. 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 Back

9. 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. Back

10. 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. Back

11. 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. Back

12. 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. Back

13. 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. Back

14. 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. Back

15. 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. Back