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## Introduction: Why the UC Application is Different [00:00] Welcome, welcome, welcome to uh Eagle and our session tonight, our training session with coach Art here. Um I am going to be doing a training session on uh an overview of the UC application. Now, um the last last week I was on vacation and so my um my counterparts, my coaches, uh they did an amazing job going through the common application and I hope that you all were there and able to take advantage of that session because it was incredible. If you didn't get a chance to see that, um I would recommend that you go and look at the video uh on YouTube. I know it's out there now, so that's um that's great. But again, thank you for joining. Um, I always appreciate everybody uh, you know, taking the time uh, to join us here. I'm going to go ahead and again get started really quickly. So, I'm going to share my screen. But before I do that, um, if you can do me a favor, ## How to Navigate the “About You” Section [01:00] you know, I'm the if you guys have been with me for a while, I love the reaction. So, if you can hear me, if you could please give me a thumbs up so I could see those thumbs ups. Awesome. Great. Okay. Now, along the way, if you guys ever um find uh useful information, I always love seeing uh you know, throw a heart up there or throw a thumbs up whenever you um hear something, a nugget of of information that is really interesting. Throw a nugget up up there, you know, a thumbs up or a heart or so. um so that I can know and I always take note of that, but also I know that you guys are there and you're listening and that you um that you enjoy what you're what you're listening to. So, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen and then again, if you can go ahead and um make sure you share your screen, I mean, sorry, you let me know if you can see my screen, that would be great. Okay, awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Okay, let's get started. Okay, so I'm sure many of you know again um it would be great if you could in the chat if you could do me a favor in the chat um what kind of makeup you guys uh have on there if you can tell me whether you're uh a parent or a student and that you um and what uh you know graduation year. Okay, so we're going to talk about the UC application. Uh, and here is our agenda. Going to go give a little bit of a a brief starting. It's going to be a lot, so I'm going to have to go through this pretty fast. Thank you so much students, parents. Awesome. of 20 26 orers. So, this is relevant. We're going to talk about all the sections of the UC uh about you, the campuses and majors, academic history, test scores, activities and awards, scholarships and programs, and personal insight. and then lastly uh talk about any takeaways. ## Selecting Your Campus and Major [03:00] Okay, so I'm going to go very very fast here because there's a lot to go through and then but then and then so I can try to reserve some time at the end for any of your questions. If you do have questions um please list them in the Q&A section, okay, of the of this session and then I will try my best to answer them. So, first of all, getting started. Just to let you know again, um the application site link. If you go ahead and apply, you go to apply.unofcal.edu, you'll be able to go ahead and start up an account. But this is the one thing that I will warn you. Don't start filling out stuff necessarily, okay? uh especially if you are one of our uh in our program um use our workbooks that we would provide during the um our during our intensives and put all the information there. And the reason why is because this will renew on August 1st. When they renew on August 1st, all of the information that was previously there gets wiped out. Okay? So that's the thing. Don't put don't put so much and invest so much time in filling out the application now. Um, first of all, some they they won't let you do certain thing because they're they locked it down. But secondarily, if you do if it does open up or so or if you have some information, don't fill it out completely because it'll get wiped out anyway. Okay, there are um there's remember there's nine campuses, one application. Okay, so if you are filling out the the the application itself, you only need to fill out one application and then you can choose the nine. Okay, so let's go into first section. section one which is about you. For the overview of about you, this is really a bio an autobiography about who you are as a student. It really helps the readers understand the context of who you are and where you are from. And really the students, a lot of students, um, for those students that are on here, you may need to ask your parents or legal or guardians to help you fill it out because there are some aspects of the about you section that will require um, input from your parents or your legal guardians. Okay. So, the first thing is, as fairly customary, they're going to ask your address. Where do you send? Make sure you have the correct address or so. They also ask your name and the and your your name legal um living name and all of that. Okay. They're going to ask for your phone number, alternate phone number and then authorization to share information. Okay. So, if you check this and what happens is they're going to start providing you with information and I don't know what actually happened there. So, they do have um of course your name your um so they'll ask for your formal name. Your formal name would be one that is part of the um uh ones that you see on legal documents and then they ask for your um uh you know your casual name or live name which is uh more the more casual ## The UC Values and Why You Should Care [06:00] name that you'd use. Okay, an alternate name. All right. Uh address, phone number, um and then again authorization to share information. Okay. And this is the actual screens from the from the from the um application itself. All right. So, another thing that they're going to ask you about is your citizenship. And your citizenship, this portion right here is asking if you're in the United States, what it's going to ask you is to input your social security number, your DACA social security number, or your ITIN, which is again a business um uh number. Okay? Uh or individual number. Um now if you are also um if you are AB540 eligible or you're an undocumented student then you would choose no selection under the country. Okay the country option. All right. Uh also they're going to ask you if you are um enrolled uh as a member of uh an American Indian or Alaska uh native tribe. Okay. and they'll ask whether you are federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, not in California or a California non-federally recognized tribe. For those options, if you select those, then what happens here is that they will ask you uh for some information like your tribe name as well as um some certification there. Okay. Uh just to let you know for those who do have that ethnicity, there is no separate application for the Native American Opportunity Plan. um that plan allows you to get some um consideration with respect to making it to the UC's. Okay. So that's uh part of the citizenship and residency uh section there. Now you are also going to be filling out demographics. And I do want to stress that first of all this section here a lot of parents and a lot of students they get very very preoccupied about this because they say oh my gosh um you know what are they going to use ## How to Fill Out the Academic History Section [08:00] for they will only the the demographics that they that they gather here is race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation etc. This is only used for data purposes only. So when you see when you go on to the UC sites and you see a bunch of stats that they have, this is where they pull them from. But they do not use this as part of the uh admissions process, okay? And evaluate you. So you remember that whenever you put information on the application, you are never penalized for the information. And what I mean by that is that you it's never a negative situation um that you will be looked bad upon um or reduce you know or uh it's a never a a penal uh penalized opportunity uh for for you to um not make it into the schools. Okay. Now, um, with respect to the information that's gathered within the demographic section, you have, um, they'll ask whether specifically Hispanic or Latino, and then they'll also ask for racial backgrounds. So, African um sorry, African-American or black, American Indian, uh um Alaskan, uh Asian or Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Southwest Asian, and um and North African, white, Caucasian, and then they'll also ask for gender and sexual orientation. I will tell you now uh just to let you know that this will change um because of the recent um changes in government uh you probably heard is that now um the gender is now going going to go back to just male and female okay so there won't be any differentiation there so when August 1 comes along that is when we will look at the new um application and then we'll do another one of these to just kind of tell you what are the differences But that is something that is coming up and changing uh as of August 1st. Now uh language. Okay. So they will ask you in the about you section about language. So they'll ask you first of all uh your first speak language. Okay. So basically again um what language did you learn to speak first? Typically a lot of the students are going to be English. Um but if not that's fine. You can choose a different language. So um you want to state um the other languages if applicable because it will when you drop down to choose a language it's going to say are there other languages that you know they will also um you know ## The Activities and Awards Section—How to Make It Shine [10:30] ask and you can see here tell us a little bit about yourself okay some additional information um and the reason why they ask this additional information it's really meant for the UC's to provide services and assistance if it's applicable so for example um you If you are um it says married in a civil union, if you have children, if you're part of the foster care system, um if you um were a current or former member of the military, um or do you have a dependent that's a military, all of that is very um relevant for assistance. Like for example, scholarships and financial aid and consideration. Uh but again remember all of the demographics that are on here are not used specifically for the admissions par. It is more used towards if there are services and assistance that they can provide you especially let's say if you've done military service or if you're part of the foster care system. Okay. All right. So, um, another section that's, uh, in the about you section is, uh, the do you live by, uh, the, um, it's basically your your income. Uh, first of all, they'll ask, do you live by yourself? And the reason why they're going to do that is to see again, if you live by yourself, are you uh, the one that is actually funding uh, that that living, right? So, they will ask, do you live by yourself? If you say no, then you can ask. And then this is where for a lot of you students going into this uh income section is to check with your parents. Okay. Um this information specifically in this section is not used for financial aid. This is not the one that's used for financial aid. This is strictly for data tracking purposes. Okay. Um but what this is used for is this what's going this is what's going to drive your application fee waiver. So remember, if you put in um I believe the the mark is um and I for gosh I I can't believe I forgot this. It's either 50,000 or 60,000 something like that. So if you put in a particular income, it will automatically flag that and then when you go to select your camp your your the applications you're going to file uh for the campuses. Uh, and then it will automatically come up with a um ## The Personal Insight Questions (PIQs)—What to Focus On [13:00] a popup that says, "Oh, you're eligible for the waiver." The waiver normally is that you get waved up to four um application fees. Okay? So, again, with an application fee of, you know, $80. Uh it's fairly expensive. So, you get waved up to four schools. Okay? So, you'll be asked what is your total income earned in 2024? That's including spouse or income. So you put a total number there and then how many people are supported by that income. Okay. So that's very very important. Again uh if you have um any questions about that, please ping us, let us know. Uh especially we have you know the financial aid um part uh expert and coach David. But remember this particular section is not affecting financial aid. It's affecting uh just the the the application waiver. Okay. After you've done all of that, it's going to ask you about your parents, okay? And it's going to ask you about your parent educational level. So, you can choose all the way up to post-graduate. This really again helps the UC's determine if the student is a first generation student. And one thing is that with first generation students, you do also get some considerations with respect to scholarships, financial aid. Okay. There are also programs that are available at the UC's for firstgen. Okay, so um first generation is defined if both parents or guardians have not received their 4-year US bachelor's degree. Okay, again stress US bachelor's degree. So that's the reason why a lot of students I've seen this before. They ask, well, Coach Art, is it important to fill out you know these sections? And yes, it is again because one they're not going to be using this is not included in the report that gets given that's given to the readers. But what it is again it's for them to do um a particular of course demographic uh analysis and trending and report but also to provide you with possible advantages uh with respect to services. Okay. All right. You will also be uh signing a statement of legal residence. Okay. And what that means is legal residence within the state of California. So the question some of the questions that you're looking that you or questions you be considered is would you like to be evaluated for California residency for tuition purposes? Because remember again if you are instate is the the tuition is much less than if you are out of state. Okay. So this is going to help them determine your residency for tuition purposes and but remember it does not impact your admission decision. Remember these sections are not used for admission decision. Now the questions that you'll be asked again are you physic have you been physically present in California for at least 3 years? Okay so that's the the residency consideration. Have you and or your parents established California as your permanent home for the past 366 days or more? Okay, that's another one. Um, and then they'll also ask for your parents' residency status and their citizenship. And again, um, there is also, um, signing, uh, an area signing for the acknowledgement of truth and the availability of documentation. though that what they're saying here is that if there's any questions about citizenship um or residency, they have the right to be able to ask you for appropriate and available documentation to prove that. Okay, so that's part of this section here for the statement of legal residence. Okay, so let's go on to section two. ## How to Avoid Mistakes in Your UC Application [17:00] Now, as you can see, section one was a long section that you're basically it's almost again, it's like one of those applications of DMV or when you're signing up for for your, you know, loan papers from it's basically just asking all of the basic information about um your you know, name, address, phone number, all that, but then also about you. It truly is an autobiography about you. The next thing that we go through is the campuses and majors. So now um first of all when you get into this section you are going to be asked for the acknowledgement of UC values. Okay. Now the University of California has very very strict uh values with respect to community principles. It talks about honesty, integrity, respect for differences and commonalities, the respect uh rejection of discrimination. Okay. And so this is one thing that you need to make sure that you check uh check box. Um and again um that that uh as you can see here we are committed to ensuring freedom of expression. Uh the UC's I think out of a lot of the different school systems throughout the United States is very very very strict and very serious about you know um the freedom of expression uh individuality inclusivity or so. So you need to make sure that you check this and if you don't then you're not going to be able to submit um the your application because it's required. Okay. But I do hope that many all of you will do that because it's a good thing again principles of communic of community. Okay. So once you've done the acknowledgement of the UC values what you're going to do next is now is that you are going to select your campuses. Okay. I will say one so one thing before I I move forward here. It is important that when you're going through, okay, when you're going through your application, that you do it in sequence, ## Final Tips and Next Steps [19:00] okay, of the sequences that you see of the sections that I'm showing you. And the reason why is you don't want to be skipping ahead to certain sections at least for the first when you go through the first time because if you miss certain sections that will not open up some um opportunities with respect to let's say scholarships or other considerers or other questions. Okay. Because the the the the application itself does have some um nuances in which if you select certain things here it will open up certain other sections. Okay. or other options. But for this campus here, you can see as I mentioned, it's nine campuses. Um there's nine campuses, uh one application. Uh the fees for selecting all the campuses. You can you can select all the campuses that you want. It's $80 per campus. It's $95 for those who are international students. Okay. Uh so what happens is is when you submit your application that one application will be sent to each campus that you select. Okay. Now I do want to stress and let you know because this is a question that always comes up. UC campuses do not collaborate with one another nor do they do they you know exchange admission decisions. They don't. Okay. Each student will receive a separate decision from each of the campuses they apply to. But they do not talk to one another. And let's say you say, "Oh, wow. You have this kid. Uh, okay, we'll trade you." Or, "Okay, if you don't do, you know, if if if you're not going to take them, then we'll take them." That is not a conversational one, they don't have enough personnel and time to do that. Okay. too. Each of the schools have their own particular overlays um and particular um uh uh criteria uh with the type of student they want to bring in. Okay? So, they're not so it's not like they can just exchange students. They're not going to discuss that with with one another. They just don't have the time or the bandwidth to do that. Okay? So, you all know uh the schools here again Davis, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Merrced, Santa Barbara, LA, Riverside, Irvine, and San Diego. Okay, you will select these um schools um on the map here and then what it will do it was it will calculate the estimated cost for the actual fees uh totaling for all of the ones that you select. If you have a waiver, as you can see here, you've qualified for UC application fee waiver. So this is one where um I had put in a low um uh um salary and then what it does is it will pop up and this is normally will pop up with a yellow type of highlighted area that says you have now qualified for um a free um three campuses up to four of them. Okay, everybody tracking so far? I just want to make sure if you guys can give me some thumbs up, I'd really appreciate it. And hopefully this is not going too fast, but again, we're still at section two, so I want to make sure I get through all of this. Now, picking of majors. Okay, so one thing with picking of majors, what you're going to do is you're going to go to the next once you've picked your campuses, then you're going to go to the major section and you're going to browse the majors uh by college or categor and category of study. Okay, so now majors may differ between campuses. Okay. And what I mean by that is is that for example one um uh one one uh UC campus may call it, you know, marine biology, another may call it marine sciences. Okay? So you got to watch out for the naming of the majors. Um and so the best way to do this if you have any questions is to contact um the UC, the campus itself, talk to somebody admissions to make sure that you get the right majors. we can also help you with that too cuz we actually know all of the majors as well. But it's important always I always say is to go directly to the source if it's something that you have you know um a little bit of questioning on. Okay. Uh because there may be and then also there may be majors that are unique specifically to a campus. So for example like um I believe for example UC Santa Barbara they're one of the only UC's that have zoology as a as a major. Okay. So, you also want to take a look at that that they're unique that that they may have a unique major. Um, there's also options to choose alternate alter alternate majors. Most campuses alter have alternate majors. I will tell you that UCLA last year they removed the alternate major and most likely some of the more higher end um more prestigious UC's are probably going to follow in the same way just because um the reason for the alternate ma alternate major is that if you don't make it into your primary then they will reconsider you for your alternate but because of the popularity um of the UC's mo majority of the UC's normally they don't even get to the alternate major just because they filled up the primary major. Okay. So, even though you u may fill out the alter alternate major, it might not even be considered um depending upon how many uh students have applied for that for your primary. Okay. There is the option to uh to to choose undeclared uh for freshman applicants. Okay. And some selected majors will also have uh requirements for supplemental materials. So you have to look out for that. So when you choose let's say one of the the majors here. Okay. If you click click majors what it will do is it will come up with a box and it will state oh um you are required to provide let's say a supplemental application or audition or portfolio. So, for example, I had a student that went for UC Santa Cruz and he was also he was going there for art. He had to turn in an art portfolio. And with that said, you want to make sure that you look at the important dates for those because sometimes those dates are actually earlier than the acceptance the the the submission date. So, for example, for art, he had to turn his in in October. Um, but the the the application was due in November. Okay. at the end of actually December 2nd was the last one. Okay. So, it's really important to complete these because if you don't complete the supplemental information that they're asking for, your submission may be rejected. Okay. All right. So, you've gone through the majors. Again, I won't go through all of the majors or so. There's such a vast amount of them. If you are looking to uh look for all the majors, uh let us know by uh in the in the in Discord. uh and we do have a listing of those. Okay. All right. So, that was the campus and majors. Now, section three is academic history. Okay. So, this is the one where um first of all, here's a couple of things. Here's a couple of considerations. Students, do not submit a transcript when you're submitting your application. Okay? So, don't be don't don't be, you know, don't try to look to see where you're going to upload a transcript because you are not. What it is called is is your self-reporting. Okay? So, what you're going to do is you're going to input all of the A throughG coursework. Okay? Just the A throughg coursework. Um, and you're going to self-report that for high school and for college courses. All right? Now, what I do recommend is that you get an unofficial transcript so that you can ensure that you enter the information into the section exactly how it appears in your transcript because that is what the readers and them going to check. They're literally going to check to make sure when you are admitted they they make they they they will check to see literally one for one that you have exactly what appears on your transcript. So it is extremely important to have uh a u unofficial transcript. you can get that from your counselor so that you can go ahead and make sure that you get um uh it so that you can have that for your um your your schooling, okay? For your your listings. Um another thing on your transcript that's important on there um is your California um SSID. Okay? And that's a if you're a California high school student, you've picked the high school, the SSID is very important is important because it allows you to do a couple of things and I'll show you that when we get to the courses selection. Okay. But with respect to the courses um you know you take uh you can see here is first of all there is um seventh and eighth grade consideration. So, you will normally list any math or English courses that you have taken in seventh or eighth grade that is a high school level math course or English course. Okay, I can't stress that enough. Not the seventh or eighth grade level, but it is the high school level math. Okay, some of the middle schoolers you have, if you've taken at that time, you may be in advanced coursework. Okay. So, you want to declare um if and and also uh you want to declare if you took any sixth to eighth grade courses outside of the United States. Okay. In this here, you want to list courses that you've taken as long as you've achieved a grade of C or higher. Okay? So, again, they're high school level courses, math and English C or higher. Okay? But remember that these particular courses will not be used to calculate the UC GPA. Now remember, we've always talked about from a GPA perspective, it's not as important, but still they still do derive the UCGPA. It is still a consideration as part of the UC application. Uh it is not a huge huge factor, but it is still a factor, but remember that the seventh and eighth grade courses will not play into the calculated aart as part of the UC GPA. Okay. Uh grade levels. Okay. So what happens here is when you go ahead and um you start listing out the courses, you're going to list these courses by your grade level 9th, 10th, 11, and 12. It is a very easy pro well say, let me take this easy process. It's a very self-explanatory process when it comes to clicking on the buttons and saying enter your course, enter your grade. So couple of things. First of all, you're going to list out the course category, the course name, the honor type. So, the honor type is honors, uh, considered honors. Um, it's an honors level course at the high school. It's either, um, an IB or, you know, an AP course or it's considered honors within the eyes of the UC because the UC's, they have particular courses that are considered honors courses in the eyes of the UC's. Okay? So, be very careful with that when you're listing this because what happens is you may have an honors course in high school, but it's not considered honors at the UC. Okay? It's important again to enter, and I can't stress this enough, exactly what is shown in your transcript. You need to select the grade level and the academic year that uh you have um that you've taken that course. Plus or minus grades are not accepted. So, it doesn't matter whether you have an A minus or an A+. you're just going to put either A, B, CD, DD, EE, or F or whatever the uh grading system that you chose, whether it's, you know, 0 to 100 or passing and failing or or whatever type that you've selected. Okay. Now, there is an option within the UC application for you to be able to import your coursework and your grades. If you had inputed in the beginning of the about you section your CASS ID, your California student um student ID. Okay. Then what h um then what happens here is that they will give you an option because they'll know based on your SSID in your high school. They'll know the type of courses. You can see here I again I'm in San Diego um and uh Westview High School is a high school next to us. So again, that's something that they can uh literally import and that will make it much easier for you because again, it's from the database that they have. So you don't have to worry about um necessarily being exact because it has the exact pieces of the names of from your transcript. Okay. California students will find uh can find their courses in their dropdown because majority if they're again if they're A through G, they follow the A throughG um formula or the the format. But non California students, you will have to enter your courses manually because of course the UC's don't have all of the courses from across the country. Uh, also this is another thing because students always say and I I don't know where this came from where people say, "Oh, well they don't consider courses that you haven't taken." No, that's not right. They do. So senior year courses, they also need to be inputed and they need to be listed as either in progress or planned. So you are still going to and that's very very important because the schools want to see that you are still continuing on with the coursework and the rigor as you did in your junior year or your sophomore year and freshman year. Okay? And so it's very very important that you are listing your courses that you are going that you're taking or you're going to take. Now here's a caveat. Here's one thing that I need to let you know. Make sure that if you put it in your application that you take it. What I mean by that is is that you actually follow through on that because if you don't that that can be a point of contention in which the UC's could remove and take away your acceptance if you say you took you were going to take a course and you didn't because remember they're judging you and they are evaluating you what is based on whatever is listed in the application and that's it. Okay. So, if you say you're going to take, let's say, AP physics C, you better be taking AP physics C. Okay. All right. Uh, another thing is is that there are two other sections. It's called college uh colleges attended. So, colleges attended while you're in high school. Okay. So, colleges attended while you're in high school. So, remember you can um you when you go to a community college, you're going to list out any schools where you can derive a college transcript. Okay. Now, if that's college transcript, uh whether you are taking physically that class uh either online or at the college or in your in high school in your high school building, but it still um deres a college transcript. Those are the colleges you attend. And you want to select colleges from that list. Okay? From the list that you that drops dropped down here. Hopefully, they have it there. Okay? Now once you select the colleges attended then you're going to list out the college courses taken in high school. So meaning these are courses that you took during high school and the college courses um um at the it's either if you've taken them at the college or in high school. You want to select courses from the dropdown or you self-enter the courses if you can't find it. There are times when you can't find it. Now most likely again we've always said it's very important to take the courses from A through G the I gety requirements. If you do that then it should it it will uh pretty much assure you that those courses will be listed as part of the dropdowns for uh in the academic history section. Make sure to report courses you are currently taking or plan to take in your senior year as I mentioned. All right. Another thing is there are two additional information sections within the UC application. This is the first one. This is the academic additional comments section. Remember, some people get very confused about this because it only is 550 characters, not 550 words. There's a huge difference. Okay, this is the place, and this is very, very important. This is a place where you explain your poor grades, attendance issues, specific coursework, maybe spec uh special grading systems, things that affected you academically. It is important and vitally important that you fill this in if that is. If there's nothing that affected you, don't fill it in. Okay? You don't need to. This um that's the last thing that you want to do is to have um your uh the the reader read something because remember they're going through so many applications. They don't want to read superfluous stuff. Superflolous stuff meaning stuff that is not necessary for them to read. Okay. So, make sure again um that you put in any additional information that truly affected your academic um career there at your high school. Okay. All right. Let's go on to section four, your test scores. Okay. So, now you've gone through all the about you. You've gone through picking your campuses and majors. you're going through, you know, your academic section, which is the biggest part. Oh, sorry, one last thing. With respect to the academic history, what I always say to my students is this. Once you fill in the information, the one thing that I do like about counselors in high school is I would go to them and actually show them on screen your application. The online application, show them how you fill it out, okay? because they are trained in this, okay? Or they should be. And so you want to make sure that you put you input the correct courses because remember it's only A through G. Put in the correct courses and that you've entered in them correctly. Let your counselor look at that because they are experts at the coursework. Okay. So test scores first of all um there's different categories. Okay. The categories are AP exams, IB exams, English language proficiency tests and international exams. So AP which is again uh the advanced placement, IB which is international baloria and then you have your English language proficiencies and internationals. Okay, most of these exams are optional except for the English language proficiency. If you've marked in your application that you are that it's not your uh primary language or you haven't been in the country for long enough, then they may require you to prove your English language proficiency. Okay? Remember, test scores with respect to SAT and ACT scores are not considered. Don't put them in. It specifically says not to put them in. Okay. Um I have heard and this is even directly from coach um Tony is that they're going to ask you not to put it in. So don't put it in because if you do that means you're not listening to the instructions. Okay? So there's no use to put in your SAT and uh ACT scores. Now the only caveat to that is is that if you're doing uh ACT writing or SAT writing, you could use that as part of your English language proficiencies. Okay? So we'll go through that. For the AP exam, you want to put the ones that are completed or not completed. Remember, as I mentioned, you want to put everything that you're doing also that you haven't done. So, for example, if you are a senior and you're going to take your AP exams in your senior year, you want to list those out that you're going to take it. But remember, as I mentioned, if you put it on, make sure you complete it because they're evaluating you based on what you put in the actual application itself. You're going to tell them when you took the exam, which exams, and the score if it's completed. And if you are admitted, then the students, okay, all the students will have to verify all their exam scores by showing them, you know, the um uh links to the uh to the AP board or or the college board or so. Okay. So it's really important that you will you will be asked to verify your exams if you are admitted as part of you know submitting your transcripts and your scores. Okay. Another thing I IB exams. So with respect to IB exams um again uh you want to put in your planned or or completed uh exams that you'll be taking when you're going to take it which exams to score. And there's also another question that says, "Will you be completed? Will you be completing your IB diploma?" Okay, your full IB diploma. Uh if you're going to, then check it. Okay, that's a a huge accomplishment. Um looks great on your application. So if you're going to do that, make sure you checkbox that. Okay, don't don't forget. Now, English proficiency wise, here we go. students from a country where the language of instruction is not English um for three or more years, you are required to demonstrate English language proficiency. So you'll have to put in and what are those uh tests that you can take to prove that is the TOEFL, the eyelets, the DT okay um that which is the doc DACA um or or as I mentioned either the ACT English language arts or the SAT writing and language are all acceptable means for you to prove um that you um have uh English proficient in English language proficiency. Okay. So you can put in when the exam was taken, the scores, and if you have if you're going to be retaking the exams, if you didn't pass international exams, if you have taken any international exams, this is fairly new, but you can see here uh the G uh cse uh any O levels normally again O levels from you know um from the Europe European countries or any standard board exams from India and other uh countries. You want to list the exam type um and you want to list the exam types taken or planned. Okay, so taken or planned. You want to add a list all of those if you are an international student. All right, section five, activities and awards. We're getting there, so I'm trying to move as fast as I can here. So the this is the overview or activities. First of all, you are going to list out 20. There's I'm sorry. There's the opportunity to list 20 activities and awards. Okay? You do not have to rank them in order. That's different from the common application here. You just put them in order because they are all considered equally. Okay? All considered equally. All right. Um now the activities uh so the the UC's they use a holistic review cons uh um approach where they consider academics and not non-academic factors such as the activities. Okay, there's 13 points that they consider. So remember activities don't need to be formal or sponsored by a school. Of course they can be but they don't need to be. It can be anything that you are doing. And again there are six categories. Okay. Award or honor, educational preparation program, extracurricular activities, other coursework, volunteering, community service, and work experience. Now, it is vitally vitally important, okay? Vitally, vitally important that you fill this section out correctly. Again, you're part of our program. Make sure that you um consult with your coach because this is an opportunity just like it to treat this like it is a mini prompt, a mini piq, a mini essay because if you do this correctly, this really can show a lot about who you are um with with multiple up to 20 opportunities to show them who you are. And so the way you write these are very very important. So when you enter in and do your activities, okay, you're going to enter in the type of category that I just mentioned, the name of the activity. You have 60 characters. What did you do, which is 350 characters, what grade did you do the activity in? Either 9 through 12 or after 12th grade. Again, after 12th grade is for transfers. How much time did you spend hours per week, weeks per year? And then the a and what you want to do is you want to average that time. I always say average on the high side. Okay. when I'm not going to gonna go through necessarily how to write your uh activities. Uh if you need to look at that, look at my activity, how to write activities um video training that I have on YouTube. But just to give you a little bit, readers are looking for commitment hours, progression, and leadership, which we always talk about, and bulleted sentences that have quantity, impact, and action verbs. Focus on you, not others. Okay, so this activity section, I can't tell you enough. Remember how we always say that academics, activities, and the application. This is vitally important that you fill this out correctly. Don't short change these um areas here. Don't short change the 350 characters. Try to fill it up as much as possible as well as the 60 characters. Okay. Section six, scholarships and support. I'm going to run through this really fast. So section six is just a highle overview. is depending upon the UC campuses that you fill out. Okay, remember how I said you want to do this in order. This is the area that it it affects it a lot because there can be up to 10 scholarship categories that will appear based on the selections that you made throughout the sequence of the application. Students have the ability to provide uh interest in these scholarships. And you want to make sure to fill out the application as I mentioned in sequential order so that they'll show up. Um how pertinent or how relevant is this? Um I haven't really seen a lot of relevance uh um with respect to coming out of this, but again it is an opportunity for you to select um uh scholarship information and scholarship consideration. Um I haven't seen a lot that came out of this, but it's not something that you should avoid. just go ahead and fill it out. Uh it's always good to fill out and be complete with respect to your uh application. All right. Another section here is what we call support programs. The educational opportunity program which is the EOP. This is assistance and guidance and mentorship for those who are firstgen or lowincome. And then they also have support for foster youth programs. So those who have been a former foster or current foster students. Um you get uh as I mentioned there's a lot of amazing opportunities um for those who have been in the foster system like the Renaissance scholar program, guardian scholar uh hope scholars and fire uh scholars. Okay. All right. Section seven. We're at the last section. Okay. I know I flew by this but again these um again if you step by step go through all of these um you shouldn't necessarily have a huge problem. And if again if you are part of our program, one of the things that we do once you've completed all your essays is we do a sendoff call and what we do is we go through line by line of this application line by line to make sure that you fill it out correctly. Okay. So the PIQ's is the last section here. Um you have to respond to four out of the eight questions. Uh there are 350 words per prompt. Uh each remember each you see gets the same response. Okay, each you see gets the same response. So you don't want to repeat the question in the response itself. Okay, because what happens is if you repeat the question, it is impacting on the your 350 words and 350 words is not a lot. Okay, 350 words is definitely excuse me, not a lot for your PIQ's. Now, here are the various PIQ's and the questions that you're going to answer. They have themes. Okay. So the first one is about leadership. The next one is about creativity. The next one is about greatest talent or skill. The next one is significant educational opportunity or overcoming barriers. The next one is a significant challenge that you face and how you overcome it. The next one is academic subject that inspires you. And the next one is about community service. Okay. And how you made a better place. And then the last one is a catchall beyond what has always been uh already been shared. What makes you a strong candidate? One little advice. We always try to steer away from number eight. And the reason why is because number eight, there's just no context for the reader to really pinpoint and focus on what you're trying to tell them. Okay? So that's why we always say 1 through seven. And we always also say kind of steer away from the significant challenges you can because the key thing here is significant. Okay, significant means something very very significant like for example um you know you had a severe medical issue. Okay, or maybe you lost a loved one that has severely affected you. Okay, those are the kind of significant things but not something like oh I got a you know I got a C in calculus that is not considered significant. Okay, last thing here is the additional comment section. I can't say it enough. It's very very important. First of all with this uh additional comments if you have something to tell them definitely use it. This section is 550 words, but again, you want to make sure that this is something uh that you're adding information in here that was not again that was not included in the rest of the application. Okay? And this because remember there is an academic additional comment section. There's also this section is for anything that's non-academic. For example, let's say that you are affected because you had to take care of your siblings the entire time you're in high school, like family responsibilities, life impacting events. Okay? So, this area here is not supposed to be used for essays. Do not because you have an extra essay. You want to pop it in. If you do that, you will you will piss off the readers. They do not. And it literally says on here, this shouldn't be an essay. Okay? So, don't write an essay. This is purely um you know bulleted information if you can uh just but you're giving them important information that is vital for them to recognize that may have affected your ability to maybe do well in school uh in in co in college I mean sorry in high school or things that you really are some significance that maybe you couldn't add as part of your activities so you can add it here. Okay. All right let's do takeaways. So quick takeaways. First of all, applications open on August 1st. Typically, the submission period is between October 1st and November 30th. Okay? Last year, uh, it was December 2nd, and that's just because this date fell in line with Thanksgiving. Uh, but most likely if it doesn't, then it'll be November 30th. There is no early decision or early action period for UC's. That's just basically you turn it all in at that the at the latest date there. Um, make sure to get an informal transcript, as I mentioned, from your counselor when you're filling out your course sections. Make sure you input only the A through G courses through 9 and 11, including 12th grade planned courses. Try to fill up your 20 activities if you can. That's very, very important. Um, just because um, you want to give as much information about yourself as possible. But again, don't just put fluff in there, significant things, but if you can fill it up, do it. Uh, as I mentioned, don't use PIQ number eight if you can. PIQ number eight is just it's too much of a catch-all. Um, apply to as many UC's as you can because remember it's one application. If you can afford the fee, do it. Okay? And, you know, you might be surprised. I have seen students that surprised they checked, you know, either UCLA and Berkeley and they made it in. They're like, "Wow, I couldn't believe it." And they were, you know, um, in the beginning initially not going to do that. Uh remember you cannot edit after you submit. Okay, you cannot edit your information after you submit except for contact information. If there is something that is vitally vitally vitally different or you made a mistake or so, you're going to need to contact the specific school um uh campus and then let them know and they may be able to change it. But remember once it's in there, there was 27,000 applications submitted last year. It is very difficult for them to go and you know to make that change and you don't know when it's going to be submitted within the process of admission. So you need to make sure and this is what the last part here save or print a copy of a submitted application. But there are a lot of opportunities throughout the application where they have review sections. Make sure you take advantage of those review sections and you make sure that the information there is correct because if it isn't again you cannot edit it after it is submitted. Okay, with that said I got through I got three minutes. I got three minutes. Um first of all, was that helpful? Was that valuable? Please let me know. Give me a heart. Give me a a thumbs up or so. Um I know that I went through that really really quickly and I'm I'm sorry about that. Uh it's just that the application there's so much to it. Um but you know again coach uh all of our coaches we do a lot of training on the separate areas you know for example like the essays and the and the activity section everything else. So look for those. Okay look for those. Uh let me see if there's any questions. Um if there's any questions or I don't see any. Oh maybe there is in the chat. Let me see here. What is IB exam? That's the international balorate. So what that is, it's equivalent to AP, but it's normally in the uh international countries. It's it's like equivalent to the AP, but it's a if you don't have that, um a lot of schools don't have United States. Some of them do. Uh it's called international balorate. So it's IB. Okay. So that's a good question. And let me look and see if there's any other ones here. Ooh, looks like there may be some questions. Okay. For applications, if income really low but assets high, still get UC waiver. Yes, still do it. Just pop put it in. Okay. If your income is low, um yes, there again, those are independent. They're not going to to to to look at that as long as if you put that in. But remember, you got to make sure that you put it in accurately. Uh this says both parents. I thought if one parent has a four-year degree, you are not um you are not firstgen. Well, that's what I meant. So, sorry, I apologize with the if either one of your parents Okay, but if if either one of your parents um uh if one of your parents has a four-year degree, then you're not a firstgen. That's absolutely correct. Sorry about that. Uh is a parents is is a person still considered firstgen if their parents have a bachelor's degree from a different kind? No. So, it has to be US. Okay. So that's um again and I specifically looked at that and and so um you can be considered if you haven't gotten a US. Okay. Does summer of 8th grade count as high school? Uh it does if you take a high school level course. Okay. So remember everything that's available um um after you graduate from 8th grade, you are considered a rising uh freshman. Okay? So that's to just to let you know. So I if I think that's what you mean does summer of eighth grade. So eighth meaning after 8th grade. Uh it is cons counted as in high school. Okay. Where do you enter courses taken online from other um high high schools not community college. So in the section where you have high schools um you will be they they have actually a button that says other if you have um attended other high schools you'll click on that on the other high schools. And then what you'll do is you'll go ahead and um uh fill out the courses. is based on that. Okay. Uh what if we don't declare don't declare major in application will it impact admissions? You so again you have to you have to pick a major but that major can be undecided. Okay. And undecided uh it is an impacted major. Okay. It is considered major but it's it's an undecided major and it can you can be affected by that. Um just because it's impacted mean there's a lot of students that go for it. I know I'm at 7 o'clock. Uh I apologize. Uh I know I'm over. So for those I know you, you know, you're probably traveling. I'm going to take one more question here. Um can we get demographic on majors for new students? Can we get demographics on majors for new students? Um, if you're asking about can you get what the uh what the majors are that definitely on the UC site on the UN University of California site they have amazing reporting where you can actually filter by um the demographics that have been provided for students. So you can take a look at that. They normally will put those out. Okay. Um all right. So I'm so sorry. I know I have to go because again we're over time. Thank you so much. If you have any more questions, please submit them to us in Discord. Um because then we can answer those. I really really appreciate your time. Again, as I always said, you guys can choose to be with other other your your your loved ones and and your friends um or do something else, but you choose your time to be with me. And I greatly greatly appreciate that. Thank you so much for joining me tonight and I look forward to seeing you guys in my next uh training video. Okay, thanks a lot. Have a wonderful day and a wonderful evening. Bye-bye.