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Make a tangible impact for future Cal leaders by reading and scoring undergraduate scholarship applications. Our scholarship readings are completely virtual — contribute from the comfort of your own home using our online portal.
Virtual application readings are an opportunity that allows you to engage with the Cal community regardless of your proximity to campus. Virtual application readers will receive all training materials and scholarship applications electronically. A step-by-step tutorial email will explain the evaluation process. Each virtual reader will be assigned approximately 10 – 15 applications to review (exact number varies depending on the volume of volunteers for each event). While the completion time for these reviews varies from reader to reader, most volunteers find that completing an online reading takes 2–3 hours total. Please note that virtual readers can work on their evaluations in as many sittings as they wish.
Virtual reading events begin early this year! Our team may reach out for additional virtual reading events depending on the volume of applications received.
Please register below to participate in the application review events for 2026.
The Achievement Award Program (April 1 – 5, 2026)
Register here!
The Leadership Award – Incoming Students (June 10 – 14, 2026)
Register here!
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.
Katherine Fiordalis / Cal Alumni Association
Application readers evaluate and score scholarship applications submitted for the academic year and report to the Alumni Scholarships and Engagement Program team.
Volunteers must:
“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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