Interview Scholarship Finalists

Join fellow Cal alumni to interview scholarship finalists for The Leadership Award (TLA) and The Achievement Award Program (TAAP) and strengthen your connection to Cal while networking with fellow alums and meeting prospective Cal students.

How It Works

Interview panels are conducted via Zoom or Google Hangouts. Scholarships Chairs, our lead Alumni Scholarships Program volunteers*, organize and coordinate interviews with local alumni. All interviewers are given an orientation by their Scholarships Chair that includes information about how to assess a candidate’s fit for the scholarship program to which they applied and best practices for interviewing. If you are interested in serving as an interviewer, register below or contact your local district/regional chair.

Interviews are conducted in June and July for incoming first-year and transfer students, and in September for current Cal undergraduates.

*Interested? Learn more about becoming a Scholarships Chair.

Upcoming Events

The Achievement Award Program

June 11: TAAP In-Person Finalist Interviews, Register
June 17: TAAP Virtual Finalist Interviews, Register
Early June TBD: Coachella Valley TAAP Interviews, Contact Scholarship Chair to Register

The Leadership Award (Freshman and Incoming Transfers)

July 9: TLA In-Person Finalist Interviews, Register
July 22: TLA Virtual Finalist Interviews, Register
Regional In-person and Virtual Interviews, Event information coming soon

The Leadership Award (Continuing Students)

Late August: In-Person Finalist Interviews, Registration Coming Soon
Early September: Virtual Finalist Interviews, Registration Coming Soon

About the Alumni Scholars Program

Since 1934, the Cal Alumni Association’s Alumni Scholars Program has provided scholarship support to undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. The Alumni Scholars Program currently awards more than $2.6 million dollars annually to incoming and continuing Cal undergraduates.

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Volunteer Details

Interviewers report to Scholarships Chairs and assess Alumni Scholarship applicants for the academic year.

Qualifications

Volunteers must:

Be UC Berkeley alumni
Not be a direct relation to any Alumni Scholars Program applicant
Complete an Interview Orientation (online orientation for virtual interviewers is typically provided the day of interview event)
Commit to a minimum of approximately 4 hours (which includes an orientation plus approximately 4 interviews)
Be in good standing with the Cal Alumni Association

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“It is refreshing and healing—liberating, actually—to see a new day, a new message to African American students, and to all of us,” Dana shares. “When I told one of the students that assisted in the interviews how much I appreciated her presence, she responded with, ‘Yes, but I am standing on your shoulders.’”

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