AB540 Graduate and Professional School Student Panel at UCLA

Written by Tam, UCLA Aluma and Community Advocate

June 4, 2008

Eleven other AB540 graduate students and I spoke to current undergrads and recent graduates about applying to graduate school. Some of the fields represented were Public Health, Engineering, Mathematics, Chicano Studies, American Studies, Microbiology, History, Literature, Teaching, Law, and Architecture. Some of the schools that students have been accepted to or are currently attending are UCLA, CSUN, Brown, Arizona State University, Claremont, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, UCSB, Michigan, and Columbia. While this panel took place at UCLA, students from other campuses were also present: CSULB, CSUN, CSUF, Cal Poly Pomona, SMC and LACC. The outreach to other campuses was possible partly due to the release of Underground Undergrads. We had done many book promotion events at these other campuses and because of the stories in the book and student testimonies at the book presentations, other student groups became aware of what students at UCLA have accomplished.