The University of California has nine undergraduate campuses: Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz. If you’re applying to UC San Diego, you may have realized that you’ll need to rank UCSD’s seven residential colleges in order to submit your application. How … Read more
[Note: this is a pretty long article – but chock-full of great info if you are applying to the UCs! There’s a “quick tips” post on applying to the UCs here.] Lisa Przekop’s son was denied admission at UCSB a few years back. She’s in good company – many students were not admitted – but … Read more
I attended an online webinar last week hosted by UC Santa Barbara about the UC Personal Statements. As you probably know, students applying to any UC campuses are required to submit two essays (the prompts are here). Both essays combined can be no more than 1000 words, and each one must be a minimum of … Read more