University of California Riverside

Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are? My journey with the animal liberation movement began almost a decade ago, at the tender age of nine or ten. … Read more Veganism: A Journey Through the Ages

Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn? As I strode into that all-too familiar gym, the memory of last year’s defeat was still fresh in my mind. The court loomed ahead, lying smugly as if it were already aware of the game’s … Read more Success

Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. The sweltering heat of the Middle Eastern sun would wrap its parched tongue around my heavily shrouded body. The afternoon could have been cooked on an open flame, … Read more Oppression

Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are? Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality … Read more Belief

Describe the world you come from – for example, your family, community or school – and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. Describe the world you come from – for example, your family, community or school – and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.I am … Read more Us vs. Them

Open-Ended This question seeks to give students the opportunity to share important aspects of their schooling or their lives – such as their personal circumstances, family experiences and opportunities that were or were not available at their school or college – that may not have been sufficiently addressed elsewhere in the application. Open-Ended This question … Read more The Perfect Role Model

Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are? What started as a simple chemistry project turned into a huge part of my life for two and a half … Read more The World of Science

Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side. Growing up, I was always surrounded by the classical Indian music that my parents sang but I could never understand because it … Read more How I Started Playing the Guitar

Write about a personal quality, experience, talent or contribution you will make to the University of California. When we were young, we were all asked what we wanted to be in the future. Some of us said a firefighter, some said an engineer or a lawyer, and the some even said school janitor. However, I … Read more Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

What have you done to make your school or your community a better place? Last summer, one of the service events that I helped to organize was a Special Olympics showcase. I was paired up with a fifty-six year old lady named Anne, who has autism and a leg injury. In basketball, Anne kept missing … Read more service