40 Tips to Successfully Transfer to Berkeley and UCLA
Are you interested in transferring to one of the premier UCs? A question I often get from applicants is how hard is it…
The January 2017 Haas Supplemental
Anyone who is applying to Haas knows it's a daunting experience with a very low admit rate. For Fall 2016, only about 5.7%…
UCLA Hits 100,000 Freshman Applications for 2017
Fall 2017 application numbers for the University of California the highest yet. Over 100,000 students applied as freshmen to UCLA, breaking all records for university applications…
The Relevance of GPA Range by UC Campus
Now that the nail-biting has started after the UC applications have been submitted, one thing I hear students talk about is the GPA-range…
First Year Analysis of Personal Insights
Now that the big wave of applications is over (yes, you can still apply to some majors), I want to do a post-mortem of…
5 Questions About Your UC Application
With many of you diligently working on your UC application through the month of November, I thought I would post five admissions-related answers from my book, How to Transfer…
UC Stereotypes from the Fung Bros
In honor of Halloween, I thought I would post a fun (and silly) video from a few years back on UC stereotypes. Just in time…
The Top 10 Universities with Nobel Prize Winners
If you envision a Nobel Prize in your future, you might up the ante a bit by applying to one of these ten universities. These…
Out of State UC Course Evaluations
While I have written in the past about checking to see if your out-of-state English course will fulfill the Berkeley English course requirement, it isn't so…
English Course Transferability to a UC
Here's how to get instantly disqualified when you apply to a UC. Just last week, I worked with a client who had the following situation:…
