SI Counseling aka SIC Podcast

Have questions about college finanical aid? Many people do. You are not alone. We are fortunate to have Jon Waldrep from the California State Aid Commission where he coordinates High School Counselor Workshops across the state to inform everyone in education how students can make college affordable.

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 elab...

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 U...

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...

Nine campuses. One application. You may apply to any of the nine UC undergraduate campuses like UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, and UC Merced. Learn how to apply to UC's nine undergraduate campuses with Mike Drish who is the Deputy Director of Undergraduate Admission at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Our podcast will discuss the Ivy League colleges in the USA. We fortunate to have Michael Cameron, Assistant Director of Admission at Brown University. Brown University is one of the 8 Ivy League colleges. Michael brings more than a decade of enrollment management and marketing experience to his current position at Brown. Prior to joining Brown, he served in various admission roles in a broad rang...

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.

SIC Podcast 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.