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Center Find out what you need to do to prepare for education beyond high school Education beyond high school can give you choices that may not otherwise be possible, open doors to better paying positions, and give you the opportunity to do the things you enjoy most. By advancing your education, you can expand your possibilities and increase your career choices.
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Here in California we have three wonderful public higher education systems. I visit two Community College websites on a daily basis. Since I work in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles Pierce College and Los Angeles Valley College are the two colleges that most of my students apply to for various reasons. Some of my students might attend the C.C. for credit recovery and most of my seniors will enroll at the C. C. to transition to a four-year university. We also have the California State University System. Many of Southern California students apply to a Cal State. To apply to a Cal State University an applicant will go through the csumentor.edu website. It is quite easy to navigate and provides instructions on how to complete the application. The University of California System is nationally known. I am pleased to say that the 10 University of California campuses always rank in the top 100 colleges in United States. It is extremely simple to navigate all three websites.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/aboutuc/welcome.html "When it first opened its doors in 1869, the University of California had just 10 faculty members and 38 students. Today, the UC system includes more than 220,000 students and more than 170,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1.5 million alumni living and working around the world. From its inception 20 years after the California Gold Rush, UC faculty and students have looked to cross the horizons of what we know about our selves and our world, and what we can do in it. That was the vision of the pioneers living at the farthest frontiers of the American continent when they created a University for the Golden State. As we chart our course through the 21st century, the University of California is still at the frontier. UC researchers are pioneers in agriculture, medicine, technology and the environment. Thousands of California jobs, billions of dollars in revenues, and countless everyday household items - from more plentiful fruits and vegetables to compact fluorescent light bulbs - can be traced back to UC discoveries. Similarly, many of the state's leading businesses have connections to UC. Those companies were either based on technology developed by the university, were founded by our faculty or alumni, or are headed by UC graduates. UC's ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara provide exciting environments that foster world-class educational and research opportunities and generate a wide range of benefits and services that touch the lives of Californians every day. Besides world-class classrooms and labs, UC has dozens of museums, concert halls, art galleries, botanical gardens, observatories and marine centers - academic resources but also exciting gathering places for the community. Another half million people benefit from UC Extension's continuing education courses and from Cooperative Extension's agricultural advice and educational programs located throughout the state UC also manages three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. The Lawrence Berkeley laboratory was founded on the Berkeley campus in 1931 as an interdisciplinary research center. Some years later, the Livermore and Los Alamos laboratories were established to serve U.S. defense needs; they continue today in new aspects of that mission, including response to terrorism and homeland defense. With nearly 19,000 employees, the three labs have become unparalleled research and development centers whose programs and activities address national interests and concerns in areas such as energy, environment, and health. UC's five medical centers support the clinical teaching programs of the University's medical and health sciences schools and handle more than three million patient visits each year. The medical centers provide a full range of health care services in their communities and are sites for the development and testing of new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Collectively, these centers comprise one of the largest health care systems in California. UC is also actively involved in locations beyond its campuses, national labs and medical centers - in places throughout California, around the world and online."
http://csucareers.calstate.edu/About_the_CSU.asp "The California State University is the largest four-year university system in the country. More than 23,000 faculty teach nearly 409,000 students on 23 campuses and six off-campus centers extending from Humboldt in northern California to San Diego in the south. Today the campuses of the CSU include comprehensive and polytechnic universities and, since July 1995, the California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus. The individual California State Colleges were brought together as a system by the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960. In 1972, the system became The California State University and Colleges and in 1982, the system became The California State University. The mission of the California State University is to provide high-quality, affordable higher education to the people of California and to prepare students for a diverse, multi-cultural society. Today, the CSU offers more than 1,800 bachelor's and master's degree programs in some 240 subject areas. The CSU prepares about 60 percent of the teachers in the state and more artists, scientists, engineers, agriculturists and nurses than all other California universities and colleges combined. About one in 10 members of California's workforce is a CSU graduate."
About the California Community Colleges System http://www.cccco.edu/CommunityColleges/tabid/830/Default.aspx "The California Community Colleges System (CCCS) consists of 110 community colleges in 72 community college districts in the U.S. state of California. Created by legislation in 1967, it is the largest system of higher education in the world, serving more than 2.5 million students with a wide variety of educational and career goals."
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of California (A-G Requirements) The following sequence of high school courses is required by the University of California of high school students to be minimally eligible for admission. It also illustrates the minimum level of academic preparation students ought to achieve in high school to undertake university level work. The A-G requirements are summarized as follows:
College Essay Writing Tips from the College Board http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,,5-26-0-9406,00.html Additional personal statement tips In writing your Personal Statement, you may find it helpful to examine samples written by other students. Distinguish yourself from other people. What makes you unique? Be yourself, the essay should be about you. Discuss a learning experience from your life. Write about real things that actually happened. Be positive and upbeat. Keep your essay simple, tasteful and easy to read. Use proper grammar. Get to the point and do not go beyond the 500-word limit. Demonstrate self-confidence.
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