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November 27, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD A big obstacle for a student who wishes to study the arts is the widely held […]
November 20, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD Some high school students know they want a graduate or professional degree even before they start […]
October 20, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD As a college advisor for the past 15 years, I believe the best way for prospective […]
October 17, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD UCLA has been called America’s finest urban public university—and one of the best research universities in […]
October 7, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD Completing the FAFSA is an important step in the college planning process, and I believe most […]
August 21, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD Understanding the reality of today’s college application process is an important element in managing expectations. One […]
August 21, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD Applying to college can be one of the most bewildering as well as rewarding experiences for […]
August 21, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD A student recently wrote to me. Here is one paragraph from her email communication: “My family […]
June 24, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD Welcome to the third in a series of articles about the University of California system. For […]
April 26, 2018
Over the last decade there has been a surge of college students who major in the sciences in the hopes […]
April 20, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD One of my specialty areas is graduate and professional school admissions and I work with many […]
March 20, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD On both the Common Application, the University of California application and many unique college applications there […]
March 16, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD We live in a state with one of the best and most selective state university systems. […]
February 7, 2018
Welcome to the second in a series of articles about the University of California system. In a deliberate step away […]
January 28, 2018
By Elizabeth LaScala, PhD Many schools are compared to Harvard, among them the University of California-Berkeley (UC-Berkeley), fondly known as, […]