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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.



California Public Education Systems

This is a crisis year.

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 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. In the meantime, they are wait-listing students at some campuses, with possible acceptance later in the spring-summer.

If this happens to you, do not despair; 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 professors 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 before 11:59 P.M., November 30th. Do this before the deadline - servers crash.In the U.C. system, students have until December 31st to complete testing requirements.

Six of the UC schools rank in the top fifteen of public colleges and universities in the United States. This means competition is rigorous.

Grades and test scores are still the most important part of your application.

The UC system looks for four to five AP classes on a high school student's academic record. Check out their website for complete preparation information.


The Cal State University system filing dates are October 1 to November 30th, with all testing to be completed by October 31, 2010.

Pay attention to your grades and your test scores. More than ever, that "index" figure, where they multiply your self-reported grades by 800 and add in your test scores, WILL MATTER.



California Residency Requirements and College Tuition

California Residency Requirements


University of California Admissions for Fall 2010

Dates and Deadlines - 2010-2011 (See 2010 info until new info on line)

The University of California Undergraduate Application Status Website

Writing the UC Essay


The UC System did it differently this year...


The fall 2009 applicants did not submit mid-year transcript with your application; they were asked to submit a transcript if they were accepted to the UC System. Acceptances were mailed out in March.

If this procedure is repeated in 2010 This means that in making their initial choices, the UC Schools will be deciding on your qualifications based on your self-reported grades, your official scores for SAT/ACTs, your essays, the application itself, and your extracurricular activities. This initial selection will not be based on your actual CS/UC GPA.

This places a new emphasis on your test scores and your self-reported grades.

This means you must be very careful entering your self-reported grades, and work hard through your finals to keep or raise the self-reported grades you entered on your application.

It implies that if the UC does not like the grades you mail in after acceptance, they can rescind your offer of acceptance.

Remember, as well, that they also receive your end-of-year grades. Do not change the projected class schedule you entered on your application or let your grades slip.


California State University Admissions for Fall 2010

The SATs, the ACTs, and the California Public Colleges Universities

The SAT 1, the ACTs, Subject Matter Tests


Alphabetical List of California Community ( two-year) Colleges

Application Online Center, All 109 California Community Colleges


California 4-Year Public University Systems

Apply California: Admissions pages for all public colleges and universities in California

University of California System:Gateway to all UC campuses

California State University Mentor: Path to all Cal State campuses

California Corsortium

Online Colleges in California

About College Applications


Colleges with a bit of a Theme

Beach Schools

Near Beach Schools


California Private Colleges and Universities

The Common Application (Common APP), used by ~600 private schools

Independent California Colleges and Universities,

Index to all colleges, community colleges and universities in California


College Consortiums in California

Besides the College Partnerships listed here, all the University of California Campuses, and all the California State University Schools participate in agreements within the systems. These allow cross-registration and cooperation between programs.


California Rand Private College Enrollment Stats


Search All Colleges in the U.S.

Search Canadian Colleges

Fee

Fee increases at the University of California


What those sometimes violent UC protesters do not mention, is that it is the taxpayers who pay for 70% of their education. An individual student at a public university pays, at most, about 30% of the cost of his or her education. The taxpayer, and grants from government and businesses, pay the rest.

Therefore, what these protesters want is for the (overburdened) taxpayer to pay more for the cost of the students' education.

In addition, studies of the groups of protesters show that many of the protesters are not students of the University.


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Pets and College

A Moral Note

Please. When you arrive at your apartment at the beginning of the school year, DON'T go to the animal shelter to adopt a pet (usually a kitten.) What some students do is to indifferently care for the animal during the year, perhaps not even spaying or neutering.

Then if the animal has kittens, and you may find equally indifferent homes for them. They are left to roam and be killed, abused by others, or killed by animals or cars. In addition, they reproduce, over and over. More sad, homeless animals that will only live long enough to reproduce.

AND, at the end of the school year, you leave the animal to fend alone at your apartment complex.

Or perhaps, you shove the pregnant animal outside, thinking it can fend for itself. (It can't.)

As a Humane Society volunteer, I cannot tell you how awful this is, and how irresponsible it is of people to do this.

BY THE WAY: If this behavior describes you: DON'T tell people you love animals, because you don't.

IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED, GIVE SOME THOUGHT TO THE ANIMAL, and its litters, that YOU WILL BE NEGLECTING/ABUSING.


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