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A NOTE: Most California public high school guidance ounselors are overwhelmed. In other states a counselor may have 250 students assigned to him/her. In this state the average is about 800. If a counselor, or career center counselor is helping you with your college process, please be diligent about following the school guidelines, keeping track of college-related information, and following up on your tasks for this process. Learn to do some research on your own. The web is a great tool, and its enormous value is as a research tool, not just as your personal social networking device.
California Colleges and Universities
FAFSA, CSS: Financial Aid
Paying for College
Washington Post Editorial Comment on the Decline of California - effect on Education
As you begin to look at colleges and universities, both in and out of California, use Google Earth to swoop in and study the campuses. You can study from above, look around the neighborhood, and then wander around looking at the buildings from the street. Great device - invasive when it is your residence - and yet a great tool.
Latest on Cal State, UC Admissions
This is a crisis year for the California public university systems.Those of you who have applied and are waiting to hear about your applications: keep your grades up. Do not water down your second semester curriculum and do not think you can relax. Because of crowding the schools will be carefully checking your second semester performance. The Cal State System admitted ten thousand fewer students this past fall than usual. The UC system will be directing some applicants to their under-applied-to campuses, even if the student did not apply to that school. This will include Merced and Riverside. If this happens to you, do not dispair; these are both fine schools, and the UC system is going to add a new medical school to Riverside within the next two to three years. Riverside is a great school, just not in a glamour location, and the professors there pride themselves on being very accessible to their students, not always the case in such a world-renowned research university system as the University of California. Financial aid money is tight. If you can manage to pay your own way for the first year, wait until next year to apply for financial aid. Bear in mind that this state and seven others pays 2/3 to 3/4 of the bill for illegals, a fact which makes me angry on a number of levels.
Welcome to California Colleges.With over 600,000 students enrolled, California colleges and universities attract a lot of interest. They're all listed here, starting with the community colleges and then moving to the four-year schools. If by some odd chance I missed one, please let me know! Interested in the public California Colleges for the fall of 2010? October 1, 2010: The University of California, and the Cal State University, 2011 Applications, will be on-line on or before 10/01/10. The application essay prompts for the UC system are found on page 16 of the applications instruction booklet. The filing period for the University of California system is November 1 to November 30, 2010. That means 11:59 P.M., Nov. 30th.In the U.C. system, students have until December 31st to complete testing requirements. Do this before the deadline - servers have been known to crash. The Cal State University system filing dates are October 1 to November 30th, with all testing to be completed by October 31, 2010.
UC Essay topics, 2009 for 2010 entering freshmen applicants
Write your personal statement in advanceYour personal statement—consisting of responses totwo prompts—is your chance to tell us who you areand what’s important to you. Think of it as your opportunityto introduce yourself to the people readingyour application. Be open, be honest, be real. What you tell us in yourpersonal statement gives readers the context to better understandthe rest of the information you’ve provided in your application. A couple of tips: |