Top Tier AdmissionsTina joins Top Tier Admissions after five years serving as Associate Dean of Admissions at Pomona College. Her career in higher education has included extensive experience as both a faculty member and admissions professional. Tina worked as Assistant Director of Admission and Transfer Coordinator at Scripps College before joining Pomona College, where she oversaw all communications and directed transfer admissions, in addition to her role evaluating first-year applicants in the admissions office. As a professional writer and editor, she has published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fodor’s guide to Los Angeles, and many college alumni magazines. Having served as a mentor for Scholar Match, a scholarship evaluator for the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, and an interviewer for the Gates Scholarship and the Posse Foundation, Tina loves working directly with students on their writing, academic and outcomes goals. She holds a B.A. in English with Honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
Whether it’s a lack of course offerings in your chosen major or a party scene that makes you want to hide in your room, your current college may not be “the one.” For community college students, transferring is often already built into the plan, but many other students will choose to transfer from one four-year […]
The scope and quality of the University of California system is impressive. With nine undergraduate campuses spread over 500 miles, the UCs annually educate more than 235,000 undergrads and generate $82 billion in economic activity. While Berkeley and UCLA appear on most “best universities” lists, the other campuses in the system have their own strengths […]
TikTok is not only wildly entertaining, but it’s grabbing teens’ attention with more than #pranks and #DanceTok videos. American youth (ages 10-19) are spending an average of 87 minutes a day on the platform and currently account for 25% of TikTok’s users. This year, the college-acceptance genre has officially gone viral. The question is: do […]
When we think about our digital footprints (the trail of data we leave when we visit websites, use social media, send emails, etc.), we might become concerned about who’s using our data and for what purpose. Meta and TikTok, unsurprisingly, are at or near the top of the list of companies collecting information based on […]
The nine-campus University of California system is arguably the best public university system in the world. Its flagship campus—UC Berkeley—and its most glamorous campus—Beverly Hills-adjacent UCLA—are ranked#4 (Berkeley) and #14 (UCLA) on U.S. News & World Report’s global universities list. It’s no wonder students are drawn to apply to the UCs, which, together, admit nearly […]
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