California Bound: UCLA. USC. Berkeley. Stanford. Caltech.

Discover what top California universities really look for in applicants, from academics and extracurriculars to personal insights.

Meet Your Speaker

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Kevin Huang

Kevin Huang

Senior Strategist & UC Berkeley Graduate

Kevin Huang is a UC Berkeley triple major graduate (Political Economy, Sociology, Cognitive Science) with a minor in Education. As Business Chair of Berkeley’s Film Organization, he built its in-house production team and transformed it into the campus’s highest-earning student-led club. He has since guided students into Yale, Columbia, Cornell, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, NYU, and more.

The California Admissions Playbook

Applying to top universities in California is highly competitive.

In this on-demand session, a UC Berkeley graduate and admissions strategist explains how successful students prepare for UC, Stanford, and Caltech admissions.

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Understand how California Universities Evaluate Applicants

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Learn the key differences between UC Application and Common App.

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Discover how the right academic choices in high school can support a strong university application.

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See how students turn interests and activities into meaningful achievements through their extracurriculars.

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Why Crimson?

A Team of Specialists—Not Just One Counselor

At Crimson, you don’t rely on a single advisor for every aspect of your application. Instead, you get a dedicated team—from essay mentors and extracurricular strategists to interview coaches—each a specialist in their field, all working together to maximize your success.

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The Knowledge Network

Meet Our Experts

Crimson’s admissions counselors include an impressive lineup of Former Admissions Officers from the Ivy League and several other Top 10 and 20 universities, including Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and more.

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Devery D.

Devery D.

Former Harvard Admissions Officer

Devery studied higher education management at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and served as a Harvard admissions officer, UC Berkeley application reader, and an application reader for a top liberal arts college. Applying a strategic, data-driven approach, Devery helps students make informed choices as they tailor applications to Ivy League institutions.

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Dana C.

Dana C.

Former Princeton Admissions Officer

Dana C. is a Princeton graduate, former application reader in Princeton University's Office of Undergraduate Admission, and a seasoned admissions consultant with a decade of success guiding domestic and international students into top US, UK, and Canadian universities. Dana's students have earned offers from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, the University of Chicago, Oxford, Imperial, UCL, and leading Canadian institutions.

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Kimberley L.

Kimberley L.

Former Stanford Admissions Officer

Kimberley brings over a decade of expertise in undergraduate admissions from her roles at Stanford University and Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she spent seven years leading the evaluation of all undergraduate applications, crafting the reader handbook, training staff and application readers, and even managing the music admissions process!

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