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## Intro....UC App Tips + Mistakes [00:00] Okay, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Eagle Lock training for tonight, uh, Tuesday night. I am Coach Art and, uh, thank you so much for all of you for joining. Um, first of all, I'm just so excited because, um, and if for those who have joined me before, thank you for joining. For those who are new, if you could do me a favor and give me uh I'm I'm the person who likes reactions. So, if you're brand new, if you're brand new, okay? Um if you could give me a if you can give me a uh uh what is that called? You know, the bugler things with the things coming out. Um if you can give me that um the tadada, it's called a tadada, I guess. if you could give me those, click on that um so that I know that you're brand new, that would be great. And then in the chat, what I'd like to see Oh, okay. We got some new people here. Great. Awesome. Now, also in the chat, what I'd like to do is I'd like to know if you are a student or if you are a um parent and then what year of graduation. Okay, what year of graduation? That would be great. So, if you could put that in the chat, I'd really appreciate it. Okay, so we have some 2026ers. 2026ers. Looks like 2026ers are dominating here. Okay, 2026ers. All right. Um Okay. So, what we're going to ## Overview of the 7 UC Application Sections [01:30] be doing tonight is is I'm g now um for those who joined me last week, I actually went through and I went through the UC application. Okay? And um with that UC application, uh I went through each section, talked about each section, um what they look like. Um and if for those who were on it, can you guys give me either a thumbs up or a heart if that if that was good information? I'd really love to see if there if if you remember that and if it was good information. Okay, cool. Yay. I got some hearts. Awesome. Okay. So, what I'm going to be doing today is I'm going to be going through the UC application, but I'm going to be giving you tips and mistakes. Okay. So, this may not be as long of a session like we normally have, but I will give you tips and mistakes because especially for those who are uh the 2026ers, um you are right in the thick of things now. We uh for those who are in our our our families, those who work with us um what happens here that is that we are already starting on their applications. We're starting to work on brainstorming for their applications. So that's something that this will be very very relevant. Um now I will say is that remember um the new uh UC applications don't come out until August. And so that's one thing that I've told our other people as well is that um it's fine if you go on to the site, you take a look at the site, you take a look at the application itself. Um but remember, don't start entering information in that because by the time you get to August 1st, they're going to wipe out anything that's in there. So that's one thing that you don't want to do is is to have such precious information. If you are part of our program, we have a workbook and normally this people the students and the parent the students are going to be filling out that workbook and then when they're ready they can transfer that information out of there. Okay. So, if you're interested in that, let us know about maybe joining our program. All right. So, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to share my screen. If I could get a thumbs up from people that they can actually see my screen, I'd really ## Legal Name Residency and Email Setup Tips [03:45] really appreciate that. If I can get a thumbs up from people of um if you can see my screen. Okay, good. Woohoo. All right, got some thumbs up. All right, so again, uh kind of the rules of the game whenever I'm doing my training. If you if you hear something that I tell you that is um that is really helpful for you or was a aha or so, please give me a heart because that gives me an indication of the kind of information I'm giving is vital and crucial and it makes sense. Okay? So give me a heart on that and we'll go ahead and get started. So these uh section today I'm going to be talking about UCL UC application tips, mistakes, tips and tricks, you know, things how to get ready or so forth. Okay, these might be more practical, but again um and you probably uh for those who maybe have listened to us for a very long time, you might know these, but again it's something that uh is always tried and true uh in a sense of knowing how to what to do with the UC application. So what are we going to learn? First of all, an overview of the application just really quickly. What are the sections and everything else? Then talk about tips to fill out the application, certain things that you should look out for. And then mistakes in filling out the application. And the one thing I forgot about this is how do you best prepare going into the application season and it's just you know highle things that you can do. Okay. So the UC app overview. So first of all, you guys probably have seen this. This is a uh this the application site is apply.un ofc california.edu. So you go onto that site and you uh register yourself for the application. Now um there remember there are nine campuses within the UC system and you only have one application to uh go for nine. Now for example like the Cal State uh um application. The Cal State application I believe there's 21 uh different Cal State um schools. you only have one application. Okay, there are seven sections within the application. Again, there's one it's about you. Uh then campuses and majors, ## Tips on Selecting Majors and Alternate Majors [06:00] uh your first year or your academic history, uh the test scores, okay, your test scores, uh activities and awards, scholarships and programs, and then you have your personal insight questions. Okay, so those are the seven sections of the application itself. I'm not going to be going in in depth on that because I did that last week. So, if you guys want to um see that video, uh go on YouTube. It's on there. Post it on there. Just look for for me and look for my UC application. Okay. All right. So, with that said, uh section tips. So first of all in the personal information section, okay, one thing that you have to be very uh aware of is that your legal name, make sure that that name matches your school records, uh test registrations or legal documents. It's really really important, okay? because they may reference you in that and if it's wrong uh then you know unfortunately it there may be mistakes or you it could be the case where you get improper processing. Now you see on the right side here is they do have what do you have a lived name or what you call a preferred name. So you can give them your preferred name. It could be completely different and that's what they're going to use when they're doing communications out to you. meaning saying like instead of saying like okay my name is my first name is Arthur that's my my legal name but I call myself Art so I'd put my live name first name is Art right but um or if you're you go by John but I mean if your full name is Jonathan but you really go by Bobby then that's important to do that okay another thing is is um accurate residency it's really really important um that you put down uh accurately where you are okay some students they uh unfortunately they accidentally press like international or something like that. Okay? And that can really impact your tuition if it's not filled out correctly. Now, here's one tip that I would say that is really really important especially for those who are just starting out. Your email address. Make sure that you provide a new professionally named email address. Okay? Now, I'll get tell you the reason why. So, you don't want to do, you know, something like, I don't know, English bunny 2046 or something like that where it's has no idea, has no significance to the reader or to a person's. You want to put, let's say, your name, for example, like my name. Okay, Art Nesparos. Uh, and you could put Art Nesparos 2025 or something like that. That's okay. But you want to have a new email. The reason why I usually caution people to not use their existing email is I've seen this happen. Actually, you know, all of us, we have long-standing emails that have been out there for years and years and years. Well, sometimes there's so much ## How to Report Courses Correctly from High School and College [09:00] information there, so many emails that important emails can get lost. We all know this happens. Okay? I have seen it where a young lady used her existing email and what happened was is that she didn't um she she missed an important note from the school saying we need this type of information. Well, she missed it got lost. It got you know moved over whatever it is she didn't see it and then they closed out her application and she had a really good chance of making it to these school to this school. So that's the reason why I usually say for when you go into the application period, okay, the college application session or period of time, make a new email that is one professionally named and that is only that you're going to use as only for colleges for college applications, scholarships. So that you know everything that's in there, everything that they send to you is going to be about that. And so then you don't you're not you know dealing with emails from all over the place but you're only dealing with and that's why and then it doesn't get lost especially as well and you can properly you know sort it and and and organize it. Okay. So I can't tell you enough how much I tell people and especially also they are looking. So if you really have a bad email address that's that's not professional that doesn't look good on you. You want to to put your best foot forward. So you don't want something that is really um improper or disrespectful. Okay. All right. For the campuses, remember that you can apply to all nine UC campuses with one application as I mentioned. Okay. Another thing is you can choose alternate majors um at you know the competitive campuses. So different campuses have different alternate majors. Okay. Uh if it's offered. So, for example, UCLA doesn't offer alternate majors, but you can choose alternate majors. Okay? And the thing is that is that you have a primary, then you have an alternate. So, the primary with more of the much more competitive campuses, what happens here is that they may not get to your alternate. Okay? So, just be aware of that as well. Make your major choices aligned with your coursework and interests. So, I can't tell you enough where some people again um what they do is they it's the whole game of oh, I want to get engineering. I don't think I want to get into engineering. I'm going to go history. And then the problem is that their application entirely is about engineering. Their activities are geared towards engineering. Their classes are geared to engineering, but then they file for an application or a history major. The Okay, the readers are very smart. They know what you're doing. Okay, they know that you are someone that's trying to make it in any way possible and that does really put them off. Now, the only reason why I would say you do it that way as if you truly did have an epiphany of something and you changed it. So, for example, I had a student in which they were going to be computer science major and then he went on a trip to Europe and fell in love with the architecture. Really fell in love with the architecture. He had this guy that was telling about the architecture and so he changed from engineering to architecture. He had never done any architecture stuff related stuff, building stuff, whatever, but he thought he really felt in his heart that ## Test Score Rules....What NOT to Include [12:30] architecture was the right way. So that's legitimate. So that's where you you include that in your application when you do your essays or when you do additional information uh or additional comments. you add that in there saying as you know yes my application truly was geared towards um computer science but then I made a choice because I love architecture okay um if it applies make sure that you take the application waiver so that's where remember how we said the information is really important and if it is you get you know four free um waivers uh waivers of the fee okay all right academic history um it's really important that you know you uh your use your official transcript to enter the courses and grades exactly as they appear. I know I've said this last time, but I can't tell you enough how important it is. So, get an uh get a um you can I know it says official transcript, but you can get a non-official one from your counselor um from your school so that you can make sure that you put the the courses and your grades exactly the way they are in the transcript into the cell into the application because remember you're self-reporting. You are self-reporting the information. Okay. um they will not ask you for a transcript until until after you actually get accepted and then you have to provide proof uh through an official transcript. Okay. Make sure you include all high school and college level courses, community college, dual enrollment, summer school, all of that. Okay. Uh if you took nonUC approved online or out of state courses, report them clearly and separately. Okay? So, you're going to do that as well. And make sure you're putting in all A throughG courses completed from 9 to 12th grade. So that's really really important. So all A through G courses must be in the application. Okay. All right. One other uh tip that I would say and I always I um I always tell my students to do this is the one great thing that counselors have um that are very skilled at or hopefully most of them um is that they know the coursework very well and they've done this many times with respect to the college application. So I always say is when you complete the uh input of the co of the courses, go to your your counselor and then tell them, hey, can you look over and actually show them online the actual online version of how you inputed it so they can tell ## How to Write the UC Activities Section [15:00] whether it's right or not because sometimes students may get the term wrong uh or they might get the name of it wrong or they didn't include something. So it's very very important that you do that. Okay, very important that like I said, it's got to be accurate. Um, rely on your counselor to help you as well or one of our coaches if you're part of our program. All right, remember test scores. Okay, UC's are test blind. Okay, what that means is that they will not consider the SAT for admissions. Okay. Um now what you can do is you can still report them if if for example for scholarships but they're not going to ask you and literally in the application there's a point piece where it says do not post your SAT ACT score. Don't want to do it because what happens is that's going to upset the reader. Okay. Um now include your AP and IB scores. You know strong scores can help demonstrate academic rigor but also we say is for the UC's put them all. for all the scores, even if you got a one, two, three, four, five, whatever it is. Um, because you want to show proof that you actually took the test. A lot of times, for example, you you if you're taking, let's say, an AP class, you're taking the AP class and the schools are going to expect that you are taking um the, you know, the the test. Okay? And so, um, it's not a problem to do it. Now, I will say is for the privates, um, for those where, you know, it's test optional. So, you don't want to be including um like for example um your AP or IB scores that are low. Um you want to do like a four or five or whatever appropriate IB scores. I think it's out of seven. So, but anyway um so make sure that you don't include the SAT but uh ACT scores but do include your AP and IB scores. All right. For the activities section, for the activities section um there is up to 20 activities and awards. Okay. So you have only 20 slots. You don't have to rank them in any order. They are all considered um the same value all the way across. The one thing that you want to do is you want to make sure is that for the activity name and description, which is the two fields, you want to try to fill that up as much as possible. So for example, uh the activity is 30 characters, the description is 160 characters max. Okay. Wait, I think I have that wrong. I think that the activities name is actually 60. So, I may be wrong. I'm gonna have to check on that. But I believe it's it's actually 60 characters, 160 characters max. So, uh the one thing that you want to make sure here is that you want to um fill it out completely as much as you can. Okay? Use up the space. Um now, for more lessons on activities, we do have a activities um I did an activities video. uh it's out on YouTube of exactly how to ## Using the Additional Comments the RIGHT Way [18:00] write activities and what to do there. So I would refer to that. Okay. Now activities don't need to be formal or sponsored by a school. All activities are are valued equally. So they don't have to be formal or sponsored, right? It can be anything. And activities can even be things that you do like uh hobbies. Okay? But what you don't want to do is in filling up the 20 activities, you don't want to have like four or five, you know, things at school and then uh and then, you know, 15 hobbies. Okay, that's not something. So, you really have to make sure that you are very very um uh selective, not necessarily of not including all of those, but ones that are very very relevant. And I'll show you in the bottom there. There are different categories. Of course, there's six categories. Award or honor, educational prep program, extracurricular activity, other coursework, volunteer, community service, work experience. Again, if you want to know how to fill those specifically out, um I would um go to and refer to the activities video that I did a while back, okay, on YouTube. Prioritize impact and consistency over sheer quantity. So, what do we mean prioritize is don't nec when prioritize when picking them. Okay, pick the ones that have a lot of impact, a lot of consistency over just volume. Okay. Um, showing that you are a part of 20 clubs in in in your in school, but you only meet one hour a week and you really don't do anything is not going to make an impact whatsoever. Okay. But saying that you, you know, help out at an animal shelter for 20 hours per week and that you, you know, you created a program to help um, you know, u clean off, clean off animals be when they come out from the outside or something like that. That is very very relevant and has a lot of impact. Use action uh or active verbs, you know, something like demonstrated, orchestrated, managed. Okay? And be clear about your role and results. It's really really important that you're very specific, that you show examples, that you show quantification. Uh, you know, avoid vague entries like volunteering or um, you know, attending, right? You really want to be specific on what you're going to talk about. And again, if you want more more um much more detailed uh, guidance on how to do the activity section, uh, check it out in my YouTube um, channel there. Okay. All right. Additional comments. Remember the additional comments. There are actually two additional comment sections. One is a um one specifically for academics and then the other one is for uh additional comments. Remember that these sections should not have it should only have things that have not been mentioned in the rest of the application. Okay? Do not repeat. Okay. Another thing is it should mention anything that's non-academic related topics. For example, if it's if it's this if it's the academic section or ## Avoid These Common PIQ Mistakes [21:00] there's the additional comments. So, family responsibilities, life affecting impacts, gaps in education, so forth and so on. Okay? I can't stress this enough. This is not an area to provide another essay. Okay? Do not put another essay in there. It literally says, and this is up, this shouldn't be an essay. This is the words in the in the actual application. Okay? If you do that, you're going to piss off the reader, okay? You're going to make them upset because they don't want to read another essay. They only have four to read. Keep it factual and concise. Again, this is not a PIQ or another essay. Make sure you if you can just do bulleted items there. Be straight to the point. Uh don't ramble on. And this is not meant to try to fill up the 500. So you this area is 550 words, okay? four. So it's it's 550 words for the additional comment section and then it's I believe it's it's uh it's um 550 characters in the academic section. So what you want to do is this is not an exercise of trying to fill it up. Okay? Just be to the point relevant and fill whatever it is to get your point across and that's it. But it's not meant to be filled up if you can't just to fill it up. Okay. All right. Other considerations. First of all, make sure that you print out your submission of the entire application for your records. Very, very, very important. I'm going to have that about mistakes in there. Really important that you fill it out. I mean, so that you print it out just for your records. So, in case, in case something happens where there's a discrepancy, you have the actual evidence that of what you entered in. Okay. Um remember and this is one thing they only evaluate you based on what is in the application alone. Okay no other supporting docs documents will be considered unless they ask for it. Okay. So it's really really important like for example some students will put a link to a website or a link to something else or whatever then they don't have time to click on those links and look at it. Okay. I've seen some some people who are saying, "Oh, create this, you know, great um page or whatever for you or how you do it for for LinkedIn or let's they're don't have time to look on your stuff." They really don't. Okay? So, they will concentrate on anything that's in the application itself. So, make sure that you that you um that everything you put on there is relevant, okay? Because they're not that's all they're going to use to evaluate you, right? And the one thing is inconsistencies between the academic history activities and PIQs can raise a red flag. So for example, if you um if you say uh in your um if you say that you took uh a class, calculus class, but then in your essay ## Final UC App Prep Timeline and Next Steps [24:00] you say, "Gosh, I really wanted to take calculus, but I never had a chance to." That's a red flag because then they're going to say, "Are you lying? Are you saying that you you really didn't take it? But you're just saying that so you can so again that's a drastic example but really again there needs to be consistency across the way. Okay. Um between all the sections. All right. So let's get into uh was that helpful guys? Can you give me a little bit indicator a heart or a thumbs up or so because I just want to make sure that you guys are still there? You're still listening. All right. Cool. I got some I got some indicator. Okay, I just want to make sure. Okay, so let's go through um some application mistakes. Okay, some application mistakes. First of all, in the academic history uh mistake first. First of all, putting the incorrect or incomplete course entries um especially for the AG classes. Again, as I mentioned, take it straight from the um from your transcript. Okay. Uh, another mistake, leaving out community college or dual enrollment courses. You need to make sure because remember we always say from an academic standpoint, there's two main things. It's your grade trend which should be going up and it's the rigor of your classes. If you do not list out your community college or dual enrollment courses, you are missing out on a major major um review piece of your application, which is taking rigored courses. So you really want to make sure is that you put your community and dual enrollment courses. Don't miss on that. Entering grades inconsistently. So for example, using a percentage instead of letters. Okay. So it's going to actually tell you in the application what kind of scoring that you have in your application, whether it's ABCD E uh ABC D or F or uh 0 to 100 scale or 1 to five, whatever. But make sure you uh put in the grades consistently. And then you also want to make sure another mistake that if you didn't report any summer school or repeated courses because that's important, okay? They need to see that because remember they're going to see that in their transcript and they're going to wonder why that you didn't enter in those classes if they if you see on the transcript. So um what does this lead to in these mistakes? It could lead to uh the UC miscalculating the GPA. Again, remember UC's they have what's called the UC GPA. So that could be a miscalculation. Now remember um we we always say GPA is not a major factor and we still say that but the one thing is the UC's do calculate the GPA a certain way and um it will be seen on the application by the reader. They may glance at it but they'll more importantly they'll look at the courses and the grades and the rigor but still you don't want to have your G the UC GPM miscalculated. Okay, it could lead to that disqualification or even offers being rescended later because remember what I mentioned before is that the application the uh evaluation of the applica is only based on what you put in your application itself. So if you put something wrong in there and they and they let's say you said you had you know an A in certain class but you really got a D and then they gave you an acceptance and then they get your transcripts wrong that could reesend it. And I did have a student where that did occur. Um, you know, uh, where they they didn't do the right thing or or so they put in something wrong. This was more so where they said they were going to take a summer class and they didn't and then it got rescended. Okay. Uh, again, this can result in application being flagged for review or maybe even rejected. So you never want the reader to go have to go back because if you do that they have so many thousands of essays that they're applications are going through to go back is a is is a hindrance for them and you don't want to upset them. You don't want unless it's legitimate where they have to go back because they're consider reconsidering you for for you know acceptance or so. Okay. Um or it's been put on a certain um review track. Okay. All right. mistakes within the activities and award section. So, not filling out all of the available space. Okay? So, a lot of students, they only do four or five instead of 10 or 20. Again, I'm not saying if you literally do not have anything, you don't want to lie. Okay? That's the worst thing. Do not lie. Even though they don't necessarily check activities, that's one thing that I will let you know about is that they say that there's, you know, an occasional audit. never seen it happen, but they're going by because you're signing a a statement of integrity that everything on your application is uh honest and true. And so, they don't have time to do an audit on your activity. So, you want to make sure you don't want to lie, but at the same time, you want to try to fill up the spots as much as possible because that proves them that you actually were doing something, that you were not just sitting there. Okay? um using vague terms like help tutor or volunteered and without specifying role results or impact. Again, this is all about filling out activities, right? The activity section, you want to do it in a bulleted way. You want to do it, you know, straightforward, but you also want to show impact qu uh quantification and results. Uh another thing, repeating activities or putting the same club in multiple categories. We don't want to repeat. Okay. um that's the one thing that is um because you then it just looks like you're trying to fill up. Okay. Now, if they're legitimately separate things, then yes. But sometimes, for example, like you know, if you're playing soccer, um I get it. If you're playing soccer and you're playing high school soccer and then you're playing club soccer, that's okay. But if you do it where you have club soccer and you on four different teams, then normally what you can do is unless you have significant things that you've done in those those four different teams, they're all the same. You you want to list them all into one, you know, one common activity. Uh again, listing uh listing non-imp impactful or one-time events that don't show depth or growth. That's so big. I mean, like if for example, you listed out a car wash. Now, I'm not going to say that a car wash is not significant because it could be. It could be the case that you organized a car wash and it raised, you know, half a million dollars for leukemia or something like that. Okay. Well, that's significant because there was a lot that you had to do behind that. But if you did a car wash and it raised, you know, again, $20 or something like that and it's a onetime thing, that's not really impactful. Okay. The UC's really rely on a section this this section because it provides impact, initiative, com uh commitment light um activity sections make a student seem like it's disengaged. But also remember I really treat this a this section as like a um uh another another piq another prompt because if you take um aggregate all of thing let's say you listed out 20 things that is very very powerful to show that you have done significant work and it really shows who you are if you fill up the the section um and it's like again it's like the impact of another PIQ okay because they learn about who you are all right PIQ QS themselves. So the PIQ's again for those who may not know what that means is the personal insight question section. That's basically the question the prompts in the s in the in the um uh in the UC app. There are four that you have to answer out of eight questions. Um and again remember personal insight questions that's very very relevant. It's personal it's about you. Insights it means what's in your brain. Question is as if you are getting interviewed. They ask you a question, you answer the question. So, couple of things. Another thing is um myself and even coach Tony have done some uh really insightful videos u that are posted onto YouTube about how to write your PIQs, how to do your PIQS. We have a bunch of those. I would highly suggest that you um take a look at those videos. Okay. So, don't writing broad or generic essays that don't reflect specific action thoughts or growth. That is a mistake. Okay. repeating resume content instead of explaining the why or how. So this is the thing uh I will tell you too much storytelling. What I mean by storytelling is just giving the specifics of the who, what, where, when, and how of and and or repeating basically repeating your activity section. That is a big no no for PIQ's. They're not learning anything about you. Overusing humor quotes or overly poetic intros. Remember, you only have 350 words. I got to tell you, you don't need it. You really really don't need a quote uh trying to be humor um sorry um humorous uh um trying to to have this such a um poetic or or lofty story that it takes away from actually describing who you are. Um that's a big no no. Okay. Forgetting to tie essays back to the students character goals or perspective. That's an important thing is again you're telling them about who you are. The activity section is is what you do. The ac academic section is how good of a of of a student you are. But the PIQ section is what's telling them um who you are. And that's very very important. The character you have, your goals, your perspectives. Okay. Another thing, not answering the actual question that's asked. That is the a huge no no big mistake. Because what happens here is the the readers use the PIQ the the questions in the PIQ as a reference point. That's the reason why we always say don't do number eight. Number eight question is basically a catchall. Tell us something that you know that was that couldn't be encompassed in the la the other seven uh about you. Well, the problem is that doesn't give them context. It doesn't give them an anchor that they can latch on to in order for them to evaluate you. And so it's just too broad. So again, not answering the questions are important. Mentioning other schools. I can't tell you where I have seen this where other, you know, they're trying to go for a PIQ. The one thing is this. Don't mention UCLA and then you and then you pick um UC Irvine or that, they're not going to like that. Remember, they are individual campuses. They don't talk to another. So if you say, "Oh my gosh, my favorite, my dream school is UCLA," and then you also provide that the same essay to university, you know, UC San Diego. Guess what? You're not going to UC San Diego because they you mentioned um some place that you know that um that is not them, right? Um and then another no is using the same topic across four PIQ's. knew the PIQ's must the four PIQ's must be completely different from one another as if you had four different people writing four different uh prompts PIQ's and you put them together and becomes a superhum. Okay. So the impact of this is missing opportunity to really differentiate yourself as a student. Essays can make or break on otherwise borderline file. Absolutely. I've seen it. I've talked to people that, you know, you could have mediocre grades and mediocre um activities, but if you just write a blockbuster um four essays and they really get to know who you are, there are some readers who will fight for you. They will literally say, "No, I believe in this student. I think that the their academic record or their activity record is not a uh an exact uh reflection. I think we should take a chance on them." Okay. All right. Inaccurate or or incorrect personal information. So again, misspelling your name or using a nickname instead of your legal name in the in the legal name section. Leaving out previous schools that you attended. Really important that you put those there. Submitting incorrect residency status. Again, I mentioned that. Um skipping parents education or household info. It hurts in the sense of the firstgen context review. So again, they're not using that for anything to re to review you necessarily, but um it's one of those things where uh for example, the scholarships, if you are doing, you know, firstg uh a firstgen scholarship or so uh that can explain it and then not explaining any anomalies, okay? Uh as I mentioned in the comment section. So this could uh you know doing uh in inaccurate personal information can disqualify you uh the student from fee waiverss scholarships ex uh or so for example or advantages like the ELC eligibility in the local context. What that means is if you are part of the ELC then what happens here is is that um if you are the top 9% of students um what happens here is that if you rank in the top 9% as part of ELC that you can be part of um guaranteed a spot at a at a a UC if there are open spots typically again that's offered based on you know UC Riverside UC Merrced um but again It's still great. Okay. All right. So, we went through the mistakes, right? We went through the tips. Here are the best ways to prepare uh for you for your uh UC application. Okay. And again, these are just very very high level, but let's kind of go through them. So, first of all, how to best prepare? And this is something for those maybe students that are still again 20 uh 20 27s, 28s, right? 29s, you know, increase your academic rigor. can't tell you enough. It is so important. Rigor for your classes are just so so vitally important. Um that is what's going to give you the edge in academics. If you take to all regular courses, um you know, you're going to have a hard time making it into the UC's. You really are. Um just because unless there are restrictions from your school that don't allow you to take those, okay? But you want to go to the max as much as you can with your academic rigor. Okay? And rigor we define as um AP courses, IB courses, summer programs, uh um uh community college courses, dual enrollment, um academic or or uh online programs like UC Scout, BYU. Okay? Do what you are passionate about. Okay? Meaning your activities. Do uh do your passion. Okay? do activities that you're passionate about because what happens is if you're passionate then you're going to go ahead and do more. You're going to commit and have those commitment hour spikes. Okay? Again, spikes of hours because you're going to do a lot of it because you love to do it and you'll be more involved as a leader because you love to do it. So, do what you're passionate about. Keep track of everything. It's very very important. I can't tell you enough of all the um and I say this especially if you if you have any freshman or or uh sophomore or anybody document everything all the things that you do even if you think it's small document everything because you never know how relevant that could be um a small piece of a little thing that you did or or a thought that you had um back back in the day. You'll definitely forget that by the time you get to your junior senior year. And it's important to be able to know all of that because you may use that in your essays or in your application. Okay, start early on your apps. Again, late spring, early summer. Again, we're already starting with our team uh in April. Okay, we're starting in April with uh starting to brainstorm and take a look because it takes time. Okay. Um you don't want to rush the the essay writing process. That is the worst thing that you can do. Remember how we said the essays are the most important aspect of this whole entire college application process. It's academics activities and the applications over the essays. And if you have done four years of hard work, but you turn in a terrible essay, it could definitely affect you. So start early on your apps. Give yourself time to be able to write and then not think about it. then write again and then revise and read and write and read and write read and write, you know, read read revise, right? Read, revise, write. Keep keep them going. And if you have if you're using people like myself and and and our our our company to help you with that, excellent. I would highly suggest that you get someone to help you because they have the perspective, okay? They have the perspective of how to write your essays, okay? But start early. Letters of recommendation. Now remember these are not needed for your UC application. They're not going to ask it unless unless they ask for supplementals. Okay? But regardless, it's still helps because for your other applications that you may doing for common application, they definitely do ask for for supplementals um for letters of wreck. Okay. What you want to do is you want to ask that before the summer starts of your teachers. Um, and you want to put together an activities resume like a brag sheet and uh give a little bit of a letter to explain to them what you're asking them for. Okay, so that's very very important. We actually have an again a video of that as well. Okay, so we have a video on how to write um your letters of bre. Okay. So, with that said, um that's all the stuff I'm going to uh to um you know um present today on UC applications. I really really hope Can I get a heart or thumbs up to see if those were, you know, helpful? Oh, thank yay. I'm always worried sometimes that people don't think it's but thank you again. There's so many things that you can do with your UC app. you know, just take the time, get somebody that to help you with it. Okay? If it's not us, somebody else, but get somebody that's an expert to help you with it. We definitely can help you with that. If you are interested, let us know. Um, you know, get in touch with us. Uh, there are some important events that I do want to because we're so excited about this. So, I want to tell you about these. So, first of all, we are hosting a California College Admissions Summit 2025. We're doing it Saturday, May 10th. Okay? Saturday, May 10th. That's about a month from now from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. And it's it's completely free. You just have to sign up. Okay? Sign up here at eagleock.comsummit. And um we are going to go from 9 to one and we are going to do all a bunch of trainings and we're going to have u experts um that are going to be like and and our senior coaching team that will be presenting things like I just did you know about personal in the PIQs and essays and financial aid and scholarships and extracurricular and competitive majors and you know the the college admissions space and strategies on how to how to just stand out. I mean, there's a whole amazing um itinerary that we have and so we would love for you to participate. I think we did one of these before and it went over so well. So, we want to do it again. And again, it's free. There's no cost to it. So, it's live on Zoom 9 to 1 May 10th. You just have to sign up on egolock.com/summit. And then in a really incredible event that we're doing for the first time is from 1 to two, we're going to have signing day celebration. So we're actually going to have um students that are have been part of our program that are part of our program that are um seniors now um and they are going to be uh announcing what schools they went to and we're just going to have a great celebration um and you know um honoring them um of their accomplishments as well. So join us for that. Okay. Uh we're just so excited about this summit. So please, if you have the time or if you know other people that may need um this help, please uh go ahead and sign up at egalock.com/summit. Um another thing that I want to let you guys know about uh and and definitely if you're part of our program, you know about this is our college application intensives. Okay. Um this this is a service that we provide. Um we have two sessions uh that are included in there. Kickstart and accelerator. Kickstart goes from April, May and June. And it's a one-day event that you pick in April, May or June. It is a brainstorming session. Uh well well the kickstart is we do a brainstorming session with the goal at the end of that kickstart session where you actually have an initial complete draft of the four PIQs and the one personal statement for Common App. And then we uh connect that with the accelerator which is a two-day event and that's hosted in July, August and September. And um it is a two-day event in which we take your initial stuff that you did and now we finalize it. Okay? So there's a lot of it's all of essay editing and by the end of that session you have a final draft of your four PIQs and one personal statement. Um, now it does cost it does have a cost. So if you're interested, collegeappensive.com, there's the link. Collegeappointensive.com collegeappensive.com. Go on there. It gives you all the information, the specifics about this, but I will tell you, we've already hosted three kickstarts and they have been amazing. Um, and the students have just been over the moon and they're they're amazed by um they're amazed by how um how much writing they got done. Okay. Um Okay. So, any questions? Let's let's uh I I'm glad here questions. Let me see here. So, if there's some qu Oh, how to sign up for the May 10th event. Okay. Sorry. So, the for the May 10th event, go to eagleock.comsummit. Uh, I'll put that in the actually chat. Okay, I'll put that in the chat. So, it's eagleock uh.com/summit. Okay, go on to that and then um you can just register and sign up. We'd love to see you. Okay, we'd love to see you. It's going to be a really great event. Okay, let's take a look and see. Uh, is there other questions? Okay, let me look and see if there are look forward to the May 31st and kick hum. Yay. Yay. Yay. I saw a person. Um, so thank you so much for person that said that they're going to be attending uh our event for for the kickstart. So, we're excited to have you as well. Uh, let me see if there's any Q&A. Okay, here we go. Two questions. What's a nonUC approved online or out of state course that you don't report? Okay. So, there are courses called A throughG. Okay. Um, and A throughG basically they are courses that are established by the UC's that say these are approved courses. Again, A through G. A through G are certain aspects like for example math, science, social science, um uh ethnic studies and these these are categories, okay? A throughg courses. And so when you're filling out your uh application, you want to put your A throughG courses. Now, if you did put um something outside of uh your courses, non-approved uh online or outofstate courses that you've taken, you want to list those out as well. And so what you do is there's a really great um site called assist.org assist.org. Um you want to go on that site and it will help you look and see what courses there are from um the various uh community colleges. Also there's another thing called I get igc. Those are the requirements that are required for uh classes that are taken or courses that are taken from a two-year and are they transferable to a four-year. Okay, so it's called I gety. It is actually changing to calatsy. C A L G TC for because um the UC's and the Cal States are actually combining to to one because they used to be different. Okay. Um okay, another question. What if you don't have 20 activities? Is it better to leave blank than yes don't as I mentioned if you don't have 20 activities that's okay that's all right don't try to stretch and try they will see right through it the one thing is that you know as I mentioned you want to do the ones that are impact that you're doing it but also you can add some hobbies or so but again you don't want it to be where it's like five activities and then and then 15 activity uh 15 uh hobbies that are kind of insignificant. The key thing here is those things that are impactful um that you can describe that you're passionate about that you've done um you know uh spike hours meaning you know a large amount of hours dedicated leadership and all that. Okay. Uh in which section do you input your community college info? So, the community college info, um you will have a section in the um in the UC app where it says um schools attended in or sorry, um colleges attended in high school. And all you have to do is list out the community colleges that are listed there. And then there's a section after that saying college courses taken in high school. And then what you would do is you choose the appropriate college that you that you entered in in the previous one. And then you put the courses that are there. Okay. Progress. Another question is progressive responsibilities in one club. Doof transfer treasurer to be a one activity. It's only one activity. So what because remember it's by it's normally for example they ask for the organization name or so and then the description. So the progression is you don't want to put those in three different activities. You want to put that in one and then describe that in your activities of saying progress through you know treasure this or president or you can just put as the title of that is your president and then you mentioned in your activities that you progressed from doof treasure to activities. Okay. Uh my son will be eighth grade in the fall. When is a good time to start the college search and prepare for the future application? Woo. Okay. So, um, if he's your son will be in eighth grade in the fall, you don't need to start doing the college search. And, uh, well, first of all, okay, let me take this back. First of all, um, I'm always a proponent of of starting early in a sense of just being aware of what you want to do. Okay? And so, for example, if you have an eighth grader, um, for example, we help uh six to six to to 12. Okay? Um it's always good so that we can provide you with a plan, a strategic plan on how so when you get to your junior year, you are very well prepared to, you know, make it into those top schools. Okay? But the actual application itself, you don't have to worry about answering the questions. You don't have to worry about. about how you want to prepare. Um I would say is if you're eighth grader prepare now in sense of just understanding uh what you know what you need to do and and with that I would say is you know come ping us. We give a free 15-minute assessment. It's nothing. It's no there's no skin off your back. And what happens is we would can just tell you hey here's the situation. Here's what you can do. Here's what you know what here's the classes and activities you need to do to get to here and that's it. Um, but I'm always a proponent of just getting to know things. Um, if your if your if your student is in eighth grade, um, and um, just to kind of learn the more important thing is learning what they're interested in. Okay, that's the important thing is what is what are they interested in? What's their passion that they're what what are they passionate about? Because if you learn that then what happens is that can definitely um help uh with respect to the um uh with understanding uh the major potential majors and potential schools that they might want to get into later. Okay. Uh can we list and math from middle school like we did on uh CSU as long as it continue the progression in high school? You yes. So, first of all, you can list out classes that were taken in seventh and eighth grade as long as they were high school level courses. Okay? So, um like for example, some students they they've taken like Spanish in seventh and eighth grade and it was always equivalent to like Spanish 1 A and B. So then yes, you would list that as Spanish in in the but you can't list just you know um math that you took in sixth grade or seventh grade or eighth grade that that because that's not a high school level course. Okay. Uh for activities, Girl Scouts would have a single entry and then write about the bronze and silver award within that or would you um so what I would do, you could do one of two things for Girl Scouts if they're going for their gold award. Um what I would do is you still want to put that all in one. So the Girl Scouts and then you want to list out saying oh going for bronze, silver or that. Um I now unless unless you have room then you could say is you know girl scouts that everything that they did and then you could use a separate award saying Girl Scout awards achieved and that would be bronze, silver, gold. Okay, so you can do it that way. Okay, great questions everybody. I love it. You guys are on it today. That's incredible. So, um, okay. Another question is, what types of awards can be listed? Is there a limit? There's not a limit on listing your awards. Okay. Um, but remember, you got to be you have to be kind of um you have to balance out the activity side because you literally only have 20 slots and that includes activities and awards. So, you know, the one thing is get the most impactful awards, but don't put everything on there and then you don't talk about the activities you've done because remember our our rule of thumb is for um the UC's and the CSUs 20 to 25 plus hours per week. For the top 20, 25 to 30 plus hours per week. For the Ivy Leagues, 30 to 35 plus hours per week. Okay? So, you want to make sure in the UC section you're doing at least 20 to 25 hours of of of activities in there and you're showing that before you're listing your awards because if you just have one that's five hours but then you list a whole bunch of awards, it doesn't make any sense. Okay. All right. Amazing. Okay. So, uh looks like um I can take one more question uh if there's any more questions. Actually, you know what? I am out of time because um I will be running up against time. So first of all I just want to thank everybody who has joined. Uh you guys are amazing always um supporting us um watching our activ our our uh training. You I always say this you could you know you could be with your family and your friends or doing something really super interesting but you you chose to be with me here tonight and I'm very honored by that. So, thank you for joining tonight. I hope you got a lot of good information about it. Uh, we do these things uh every single time. Next week, I will be talking about um uh ROC and military um scholarships and and and and so forth. So, that would be a really cool one as well. Okay. All right. And I loved it. Yay. People said they learned a few things. So, thank you so much. Have a wonderful rest of your evening and the rest of your week. and we will see you next week. Okay, take it easy. Bye-bye.