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Destination College Advising Corps (DCAC)

Destination College Advising Corps increases college access for low-income, first-generation and underrepresented high school students by placing highly-trained, recent college graduates in schools as full-time College Adviser Fellows.

We offer academic enrichment programs to cohort students: Concurrent Enrollment, Pre-College Scholars Summer Sessions, and Senior Seminar. These programs offer students a chance to become stronger college applicants and to prepare for the academic rigors of the following school year and beyond.

Our program partners with UC Berkeley Summer Sessions to offer students the opportunity to enroll in one of three tracks offered through UC Berkeley’s Pre-College Scholars program during the summer. Cohort students going into their senior year and who have a 3.5 GPA (weighted) or higher are eligible to apply. Past courses have included Anthropology, Computer Science, Environmental Earth Sciences, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, and Greek & Roman Mythology.

EAOP and DCAC are partnering with community colleges around the Bay Area to offer our 10th and 11th grade students the opportunity to enroll in spring courses. This will allow our students to build a competitive college application profile. In addition to the enrolled course, students will attend skill-building seminars focused on navigating college resources, financial literacy and honing professional development and networking skills to successfully transition to college. Students will select from a list of transferable courses that will appear on official transcripts to be reported on college applications.

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