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The Student Support Services (SSS) Scholar Academy is designed to empower students and help them achieve academic excellence. The SSS Scholars Academy assists students in identifying their academic short-term and long-term goals, and supports their effort. Students accepted into the SSS Scholars Academy receive proactive academic support services geared towards giving them the tools to succeed at UC Berkeley and beyond. The emphasis is on individual assessment, advising, counseling, and skill-building. The SSS Scholar Academy is a part of the Academic Achievement Programs (AAP).

The George A. Miller Scholars Program is designed to provide outstanding community college transfer students who have demonstrated academic excellence, leadership potential, commitment to community service, and who would benefit from mentoring, with a scholarship and research/community service stipend. The students spend an entire academic year developing research and leadership skills while they plan an academic research or community service project, which they conduct under the guidance of a faculty mentor during the summer and throughout the following academic year.the design of a faculty-mentor summer project involving either original or community service project. 

Academic Achievement Programs

AAP serves first-generation college students (students who do not have a parent who has graduated from a four year university of college) and whose income falls within U.S. Department of Education guidelines. APP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education/U.C. Berkeley Division of Undergraduate Education, and is overseen by the Assistant Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education.


The McNair Scholars Program prepares selected UC Berkeley undergraduates for graduate study at the doctoral level. Twenty to thirty McNair Scholars are selected each year to participate in both academic and summer activities. The McNair Scholars Program aims to increase numbers of groups underrepresented in doctoral programs.

Academic Achievement Programs