
University of California – Merced (UC Merced) Admissions Counseling


Gain the Application Advantage with Empowerly
Our UC Merced admissions counseling is carried out by professionals who are familiar with the stringent admissions criteria of this elite university. If you’re serious about turning in a UC Merced application that outshines the rest, you need Empowerly on your team.
Empowerly offers students and their families advantages you won’t get anywhere else, including:
- Vital Support Modules: Our UC Merced application counseling team provides expert editing for your essays, financial planning assistance, admissions committee reviews, and many other valuable support services.
- A Personalized Approach: Empowerly’s services provide UC Merced application counseling preparation assistance, as well as extracurricular opportunities to boost your resume—like startup internships, an AI scholar program, and scholar research programs to beef up your application.
- A Premier Hand-Picked Team Working for Your Student: Every student and their family is assigned an entire team instead of just one expert. This ensures that they benefit from a wide range of collective knowledge and experiences.
Are you ready to start your UC Merced application counseling with Empowerly? Schedule a free consultation now!
We Can Help
11x
Boost your chances
Achieve over 11x improved admissions rates with Empowerly.
700+
Years of combined experience
Our college admission consultants have a combined 700+ years of academic guidance and admissions experience and have read and reviewed over 122,250 college applications.
94%
Get into a top 50 college
94% of Empowerly students with a 3.6+ GPA got into a top 50 US college.
On average the Empowerly counseling team spends 25X more time working with a student on college admissions than the average high school counselor.
Empowerly counselors collectively have over 200 years of admissions experience and have held numerous positions in university admissions at schools like Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Yale, Columbia and many more.
In 2021, our students received acceptances to more than 170 different colleges and universities, including all Ivy League Schools, MIT, UChicago, and many more.
The Empowerly Advantage
Colleges | Empowerly Acceptance Rate | National Average Acceptance Rate | The Empowerly Advantage |
---|---|---|---|
Bowdoin | 100.0% | 9.1% | 11x |
Emory | 100.0% | 13.0% | 8x |
Georgetown | 100.0% | 12.0% | 8x |
UC Berkeley | 75.0% | 15.1% | 5x |
NYU | 64.0% | 15.0% | 4x |
Brown | 50.0% | 8.0% | 6x |
UCLA | 50.0% | 8.0% | 6x |
Johns Hopkins | 36.0% | 6.0% | 6x |
MIT | 36.0% | 6.0% | 5x |
Princeton | 33.3% | 5.0% | 7x |
Columbia | 25.0% | 6.1% | 4x |
Harvard | 20.0% | 6.0% | 3x |
Yale | 17.0% | 5.1% | 3x |
How Empowerly works
STEP 1
Consult
Schedule a consultation with our Enrollment Team. During the consultation, we’ll learn more about where you are in your academic journey, and what help you need along the way.
STEP 2
Match
You’ll fill out a matching form so we can access which of our counselors is the best fit for you.
STEP 3
Meet
We’ll find the perfect counselor based on student interests and goals and you can take a giant leap toward admission success!
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Destinations
Empowerly’s high school class of 2021 is excited to attend the following universities!











