College 4 All

The Common Application is a not-for-profit, member organization committed to the pursuit of access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Forty years ago, 15 institutions of higher education got to discover a way for a student to complete one application for many. This "Common Application Experiment" has changed the course of college admissions forever.

Now Common App works with over 800 diverse college and universities across the world. More than 1 million students use the Common App EVERY YEAR and one- third of them are first-generation. Listen to this and students from all over the world will submit over 4 million applications.

On our podcast, we are going to talk about California State Universities that has 23 campuses throughout California as far as Chico to San Diego. California has become a hot spot for prospective college students and the CSU campuses work with a volume of students to become productive graduates in our society?

We are fortunate to have Valerie Grace is an Outreach Specialist at San Francisco State University to help us learn more about the California State University system aka the CSU's.

Find out how all 10 University of California campuses are supporting and connecting first-generation students with faculty members while providing them resources to help students to help them succeed in college and beyond. Tons of resources are discussed with Gwynn Benner who is the Assistant Vice Provost to Student Success at the University of California Santa Cruz. The UC system has made an elaborate website at achieve.universityofcalifornia.edu. Number of resources are discussed from financial aid, admissions and career along with stories of First Gen students.

Understand the truths and myths about liberal art colleges and why so many employers are attracted to students who graduate from these institutions. We will also talk about how they are unique, personal and accessible for students from all backgrounds.

College4All discusses with Julio Mata from Miami University who is the Senior Assistant Director for Regional Enrollment about personal statements that are used in college admissions. We go deeper into various other prompts that are used for specific campuses, additional info section and the disciplinary questions on various college applications.