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College Application Process

UCs & Cal States

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Meet Your Academic Counselors

Cabrillo Point Academy

Pacific Coast Academy

Mission Vista Academy

NCAA (CPA, MVA, PCA)

Melissa Guter

A-G

Logan Cheshire

H-R

Elske Thompson

Sj-Z

Daniel Smith

L-Z

Holly Guiteras

A-Az

Cynthia

Maravilla-Macias

B-Jn

Keri Alexander

Jo-Si

Elske Thompson

A-Z

Counselor Contacts: tinyurl.com/CounselorsHS

Jonathan Alaniz

A-K

Before we get started with that I want to make sure you guys all know about your academic counselors between the three schools Cabrillo Point Academy, Mission Vista Academy, and Pacific Coast Academy.

We have many people on the team.

I am ___________. I am a school counselor for ________________ serving students _ through _.

The Pacific Coast Academy team is Jonathan Alaniz, and Daniel Smith.

The amazing Cabrillo Point Academy team is Melissa Guter, and Logan Cheshire.

Our largest team is at Mission Vista Academy. It is Holly Guiteras, Cynthia Maravilla-Macias, Kari Alexander, and Elske Thompson.

In addition to her Mission Vista Students, Elske Thompson is the counselor for all prospective NCAA students.

These students are preparing to meet the requirements of the National Collegiate Athletics Association, and plan to play competitive sports in college.

If you are not sure who your counselor is please take a moment to find them here. and get in contact with them. if you want to talk to your counselor, please set up an appointment. There is a link here to their contact information. They have also already sent emails to you school email account. We're all excited to help you.

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Agenda

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Eligible Vs. Competitive Applicants

Admissions Requirements

Senior Timeline

Applying

Overview of admissions requirements & paths

Understanding impaction & selectivity.

Overview of what to expect senior year.

Overview of applying to UC’s & Cal States

This presentation will cover the admissions requirements of the various pathways into these two public systems.

What is difference between being eligible to apply, and being a competitive applicant.

We're also going to talk about the senior timeline. Congratulation to the seniors who will be completing this application process this year!

Then we will do an overview of the UC and CSU applications

systems and if there's time I don't like to promise this but if there's time I

will go through the applications both the uc's and the CAL States as a whole

just to make sure that you you guys know what you guys are doing when you guys are filling it out because I know it can

be scary to like log into that kind of a system and see you know all the little

tabs all the things you have to do and kind of think to yourself like whoa I don't want to mess this up we don't want

you either so we're here for you okay first thing I to talk about is

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Admissions Overview

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UC & Cal State Paths

Both the University of California (UC) and Cal State University (CSU) systems consist of 4-year public universities in California.

Admission priority is given to in-state students.

UC’s -the top one-eighth (12.5%) of California’s high school graduating class (typically translates to the top 9% of your High School graduating class)

CSU the top one-third (33.3%) of the California high school graduating class.

There is more than one way to get to a single destination.

University of California:

We've heard about UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UCLA. They're all part of the same University of California system. and also CAL States

both of these entities both of these systems are public four-year universities

in California.

So, let's talk about admission a little bit admission is usually given

I should say priority admission priority is given to instate students so you're a student in the state of California

that's it yay you you are just one step above for all of for uc's and

CSU um uc's do the top one8 of the students High School graduating class

which basically translates to about 9% of our high school graduating class

will be admitted into a UC for CSU the top onethird of the California high

school graduating class so we can see it right here a little bit the uc's have a

little bit of a smaller margin to allow students inside they are much bigger um

campuses in the CSU I would say um but they're also way they're super popular

and challenging but we're going to get more into that

so and always keep in mind maybe you want to go to a Cal State right now

maybe you want to pursue a master's degree maybe you want to get into a doctor program all great choices and let me

tell you you can't really go wrong whichever way you go around it whether you decide to do community college

whether you decide to go into a UC and stay there for all of your training or

you decide to kind of switch it up every school every program is going to be different and so you want to make sure

that you pick the best option for you that's going to get you to where you need to

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Admissions Paths

Students have two admissions pathways to the UC & Cal State system.

Freshman Admissions

Directly after high school by completing A-G coursework and meeting minimum GPA (this includes students who completed concurrent enrollment coursework).

Transfer Admissions

Completing the CSU GE or IGETC requirements+major specific requirements

Resources: UC TAP, CCC-ADT

HIGH SCHOOL

go okay so there's a couple of different paths to