My Successful Letter of Appeal to UC Berkeley

Republished from The Huffington Post: https://huff.to/Yb74KD UC Berkeley was my dream school. In fact, as a student at a large public high school in the East Bay, as the son and grandson of alumni, and as a young person interested in politics, the University of California, Berkeley, was one of the few schools I knew. I applied in November of my senior year of high school. That spring, I received a thin letter in the mail from the admissions office. I went to the garage to open it, to receive the good news. Maybe the small letter would inform me that the fat packet of smiling faces of my future classmates was on its way or available online? Nope. I decided to appeal the decision. I knew the odds were slim: less than 1 percent of the student body at Berkeley were admitted off an appeal. Additionally, I was under the [...]

Getting Served: Celebrating Common App Submissions

It’s silent, but deadly. Its victims are rendered helpless and are dependent upon a team of highly skilled individuals who can be anywhere from 10 to 3,000 miles away to resolve the matter. The victims can tweet and update their Facebook status to their heart’s content, but at the end of the day, there’s still not much they can do.

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The Super Six Considerations for Picking the “Right” College? Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. Either way, these six criteria are all important factors to consider when deciding on a college. Start with these and you may just make a pretty darn good choice when it comes to college.