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How to Write Your UC Essay Prompts (Transfer Application)

What will it take to get noticed in your UC application? Write a unique and compelling story with clarity, honesty, and your own personal voice. NEW prompts for all UC applications!!! Come find out the NEW secrets to being accepted by the UC of...

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University Admissions Representative – UC Merced

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How to Afford Transferring to a University

Explore customized tips to budget, save, and make the next step to afford college through maximum financial aid, loans, and

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2018 Promise Student Mixer / BBQ

This one is purely social: come for the food, stay for the fun! See how your fellow students are surviving their first full-time semester at Columbia College; bring friends and make even

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CC Volleyball vs West Hills Coalinga College

In honor of the college’s 50th anniversary, 2018-19 Season Tickets are only $50.00 (typically $75.00) and includes admission to a combined total of 20 HOME GAMES at the Oak Pavilion for Volleyball and Basketball. Keeping with that spirit,...

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Columbia College Celebrates 50 Years with Community Gatherings

Columbia College celebrated its 50th Anniversary Year with a set of campus gatherings that drew hundreds of community members and visitors over the weekend. Festivities kicked off Friday evening with a dedication of the Brady-Wise Family Plaza, renamed to honor community benefactors Don Brady, Millie Brady Wise and John Wise for their decades of support for education at Columbia College. More than 120 guests attended the reception hosted by the Columbia College Foundation to acknowledge a $2 million endowment gift received last year from the Wise Family Charitable Trust. Honored guests included Don and Millie Brady’s daughter, Margaret Brady Hunter,...

Columbia College 50th Anniversary Celebration

On Saturday, September 29th, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Community members of all ages are invited to a free community picnic in celebration of the College’s 50th Anniversary. This family-friendly event will feature free food, music, campus tours, a “Then & Now” exhibit, and more. Columbia College was established in 1968, in Sonora, CA pursuant to the action by the district electorate to expand the former Modesto Junior College District into the Yosemite Community College District. This created one of the largest community college districts in the state geographically, encompassing 4,000 square miles from San Joaquin Valley and the...

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