State Schools
The original UC
What is UC Berkeley?
This is used to give a personal touch to your application and explain who you are and why you are interested in applying to college.
What is a personal statement?
At this type of school you are in a big city.
What is a an urban school?
A college's online profile that can show you everything from the dorms to memes.
What is Social Media?
This private Christian university is located in Malibu, CA and is famous for its business school.
What is Pepperdine?
The mascot of this UC is the anteater.
What is UC Irvine?
A non-binding agreement to apply early and receive a decision well in advance of the institution's regular response date.
What is early action?
At this type of school you are far from a big city.
What is a rural school?
College staff members who recruit students and review applications.
What is an Admissions Counselor?
This private university is located in Palo Alto, CA and is famous for its proximity to Silicon Valley.
What is Stanford?
This UC is known for its seven distinct undergraduate colleges (ex: "Thurgood Marshall" and "Seventh").
What is UCSD?
A binding agreement to apply early to receive a decision well in advance of the institution's regular response date. The agreement is that you WILL attend that college should they offer you admission.
What is early decision?
It may be Greek to you, but this type of organization for female college students gets is name from the Latin for "sister."
What are sororities?
What are the MMLA volunteers?
This private Catholic university is located in Los Angeles, CA and is famous for its law school.
What is Loyola Marymount University?
This UC is famous for producing the most medaled Olympians (224 total).
What is UCLA?
There is an advantage to applying this way in that there is a higher acceptance rate of these applicants.
What is early decision?
This type of college is not publicly funded and tends to be smaller and more expensive, but can offer generous financial aid.
What is a private school?
An online visit of a college campus
What is a virtual tour?
This private all-women religious college is located in Los Angeles, CA and is a "College That Changes Lives."
What is Mt. St. Mary's?
First Lady Michelle Obama was the keynote speaker at the graduation of the first class of this UC.
What is UC Merced?
You will need to fill out this online form with your parents / guardians to qualify for federal and state financial aid.
What is FAFSA?
This type of college is publicly funded and tends to be larger and less expensive.
What is a public school?
A website that you can use to connect with Minds Matter volunteers and alumni.
What is Minds Matter Connect?
This private university is located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL and is famous for alumni like President Obama.
What is the University of Chicago?