UCI Facts
The UCI mascot
What is Peter the Anteater?
The TRIO programs began as part of this president's War on Poverty.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is the cumulative average of the final grades in all of your courses.
What is a grade point average (GPA)?
This TRIO program prepares low income/first generation students in the 6-12 grades for college admission OR vocational training certification.
What is Talent Search?
UCI's Upward Bound Program Serves these three High Schools.
What are Anaheim, Katella, and Loara High School?
The grass area found in the center of campus
What is Aldrich Park?
This Act established the first TRIO program.
What is the Higher Education Act of 1965?
These are activities pursued outside of your academic courses that colleges like to see.
What are extracurricular activities?
This TRIO program helps low income/fist generation UNDERGRADUATE students, including those who are disabled, to successfully begin and stay in college.
What is Student Support Services?
UCI Upward Bound RA who is an Upward Bound and UCI TRIO SSS Alumni.
Who is Miss Jackie?
Anteater phrase
What is Zot zot zot?
This was the first TRIO program ever established.
What is Upward Bound?
These are the two standardized tests that students can take for college admission.
What are the SAT and/or ACT exams?
This TRIO program prepares low income/first generation students in the 9-12 grades for college admission, and includes a college campus-based six week summer program.
What is Upward Bound?
Number of students' UCI's Student Support Services program serves
What is 146?
Name a movie filmed on campus
What is "Ocean’s Eleven or Planet of the Apes?"
This government agency funds all TRIO programs.
What is the Department of Education?
It is important to cultivate positive relationships with faculty because you will need them to support your application with two of these.
What are letters of recommendation?
This TRIO program targets displaced or underemployed workers from low-income families and helps prepare them for postsecondary education.
What is Educational Opportunity Center?
UCI hosts these two TRIO grants
What are Upward Bound and Student Support Services?
UCI holds four Guinness World Records. Name one.
What is the largest dodgeball game/largest water blaster fight/largest game of capture the flag/largest game of balloon tag
By the late 1960's, the term "TRIO" was coined to describe these federal programs.
What are Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services?
This component of your college application provides admissions counselor a deeper insight into who you are.
What is a personal statement?
This TRIO program encourages and prepares low-income and minority students for doctoral study and to pursue careers as college faculty.
What is the McNair Program?
One thing program participants or alumni can do to ensure continued funding for TRIO?