By the numbers
Integrity, community, and friendships:
- Are you determined to stand within your integrity as you discover and refine your gifts, values, and voice?
- Do you want to help make your school community, team, or club safer and more successful?
- Are you looking to make lifelong friends while learning critical life and leadership skills?
We're looking for students who are:
- honest and honorable
- engaged across a range of disciplines: academic, athletic, artistic, and service
- eager to learn more about themselves, others, and the world
- willing to choose the brave road when they know doing so will benefit others
- from a range of socio-economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds around the world
How to Apply: Core Leadership California
Step 1: Gather Information
Step 2: Gather Documents
- Report Card (Fall 2018) and cumulative GPA
- Teacher Recommendation (form enclosed in the application)
- Parent/Guardian Statement (form enclosed in the application)
For students applying for financial aid we request:
- Page one of your family’s 2017 IRS form 1040 (if you are a U.S. citizen)
- Financial aid award statement and contact information for your school’s Director of Financial Aid (if you are currently receiving financial aid from your high school or college)
Step 3: Start your Application
Please click here to begin filling out an application today!
When students return home, they report the following:
- ability to motivate and collaborate with their peers successfully
- embodied confidence
- greater awareness of how they react to pressure
- inner motivation to build healthy habits
- an emerging ability to make regular, smart, healthy decisions under pressure
- increased ability to tap into their gifts as artists and athletes
- gratitude to have a global network of support
- a tremendous sense of safety and belonging in themselves and among their peers
Find your voice.
Live your values.
Learn to Lead.
CLCA by the numbers:
- 44% male and 56% female
- 60% people of color
- 53% of students receive some form of financial aid, with $253K awarded since 2012
- Students from 20 states and 14 countries have participated
- 2:1 student to faculty ratio
- 30% international students
OUR GRADUATES ATTENDED OR ATTEND
- Amherst College
- Beijing National Day School (Beijing)
- Bowdoin College
- Brown University
- California State University
- Carmel High School
- College Preparatory School
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Fort Lewis College
- Fountain Valley School
- Groton School
- Harvard University
- Hobart William Smith College
- Hopkins School
- Hotchkiss School
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kambala School (Sydney)
- Lehigh University
- Middlebury College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Palma High School
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Phillips Academy Andover
- Pomona College
- Qatar Leadership Academy (Qatar)
- Regina Mundi High School (Zimbabwe)
- Renda Fuzhong (Beijing)
- Sacred Heart Prep
- Santa Catalina School
- Serima Secondary School (Zimbabwe)
- Shanghai Foreign Language School (Shanghai)
- Sir Francis Drake High School
- Sonoma High School
- Stanford University
- St. Paul's School
- Trinity College
- Tufts University
- Union College
- University of California
- University of Chicago
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Southern California
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Waterford Kamhlaba United World College (Swaziland)
- Window Rock High School
- Yale University