Transfer Alliance Project

The UC Berkeley Transfer Alliance Project (TAP) is a highly successful academic advising and enrichment program that prepares low-income and otherwise educationally disadvantaged community college students throughout California to be competitive transfer applicants to UC Berkeley and other four year colleges. It is home to the UC Berkeley National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bridges to Baccalaureate Program.

·      Since its founding in 1999, more than 85% of TAP participants who applied to Berkeley have been admitted. (This compares to a campus admit rate for transfer students of 25% - 29%.)

o   In 2010, nearly 300 TAP students were admitted to Berkeley. The vast majority enrolled.

·      TAP has served over 4,200 students. Currently, it annually serves more than 1,000 students studying at 31 community colleges in Northern and Southern California.

·      In recent years, almost 20% of all underrepresented minority students and nearly 30% of new Hispanic students who transfer from CA community colleges to Berkeley are alumni of TAP.

TAP succeeds by providing multi-year one-to-one personalized advising including design and monitoring of individual academic course plans and assistance with transfer applications, required personal essays, financial aid forms and scholarships applications.

Special academic enrichment opportunities include conducting full-time summer research with Berkeley professors and taking Berkeley summer classes in the wide range of fields including Biology, Economics, Engineering and Public Policy.

·      TAP alumni thrive at Berkeley and have been admitted to graduate programs at Yale, Brown, Michigan and Oxford, among others.

Financed by a combination of private and public funds, all services are provided free of charge. TAP thanks  the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for its generous support.

TAP Participants in academic enrichment programs at Berkeley

For further information about participating in the TAP program: Contact Director Keith Schoon (510) 643-7159, schoon@berkeley.edu.

To learn about making gifts which support TAP services for students: Contact Marguerite Judson, Development Director, Equity & Inclusion, (510) 642-9813, mjudson@berkeley.edu.