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The Achievement Award Program

Each year, highly qualified and community-minded students with a proven track record of academic success, gain admission to Berkeley but cannot afford to attend. The Achievement Award Program (TAAP) offers these students substantial scholarship funding and support services to provide the opportunity of a Berkeley education.

The Achievement Award Program is a four-year scholarship program for incoming freshman students and a two-year scholarship program for incoming junior transfer students. Only incoming Cal students are eligible to apply for this scholarship program. The scholarship is renewable, provided recipients meet the following program requirements:

Program requirements

Full-time enrollment at UC Berkeley
Evening scholar meetings and events throughout the academic year (e.g. attendance at overnight Fall Retreat)
10 hours of community service and outreach per semester
2.0 cumulative GPA
"Satisfactory Academic Progress" as defined by the Office of Financial Aid and the scholar's college

Award amount

Award Recipient	Amount	Length
Incoming freshman Cal student	Up to $6,000 per year and a laptop	8 semesters
Incoming junior transfer Cal student	Up to $6,000 per year and a laptop	4 semesters

Eligibility requirements

Student status	Requirements
Incoming freshman Cal student	Minimum 3.0 unweighted GPA Gross family income of $86,000 or less California resident as defined by the AB 540 guidelines Submit a UC Berkeley application for Fall 2009/Spring 2010 enrollment Submit a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) to UC Berkeley by May 1, 2009
Incoming junior transfer Cal student	Minimum 3.0 unweighted GPA Gross family income of $86,000 or less California resident as defined by the AB 540 guidelines Submit a UC Berkeley application for Fall 2009/Spring 2010 enrollment Submit a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) to UC Berkeley by June 1, 2009

Application Process

The chart below outlines the timeline for each phase in the application process:

Prospective Cal students file a UC Application.
Students apply online for the The Achievement Award Program.
Finalists interview with alumni for the award.
Recipients are notified.

2008

2009

Current student status

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Prospective freshman Cal student

Prospective junior transfer Cal student

How to apply

Current student status	Application status	Deadline
Prospective freshman Cal student	Application opens: December 2009	Application closes: TBA
Prospective junior transfer Cal student	Application opens: December 2009	Application closes: TBA

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