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

1. Full-time enrollment at UC Berkeley
2. Evening scholar meetings and events throughout the academic year (e.g. attendance at overnight Fall Retreat)
3. 10 hours of community service and outreach per semester
4. 2.0 cumulative GPA
5. “Satisfactory Academic Progress” as defined by the Office of Financial Aid and the scholar’s college

Award Amount

Eligibility Requirements