My Approach
The sheer number of paths offered by university systems can cause students to feel a kind of anxious paralysis when making day-to-day decisions about how to engage with their options.
This is not an irrational response to the college experience, and students respond well to those who have empathy for the complexity of navigating university institutions.
Informed by years of teaching and advising at UCLA, my coaching style centers each individual student through:
inclusive dialogue
critical skill-building
mindset adjustment, and
strategic process development
By working with me, students learn how to engage with:
process-oriented and exploratory writing
methodical and task-based strategies for navigating large and decentralized institutions
intellectual, professional, technical, and research opportunities
patience and kindness towards an inner sense of doubt
educational debt and the rising cost of higher education
As students become more intentional about finding opportunities that excite them, they will:
conquer fears of uncertainty
develop personalized tools for executive function
become confident within decentralized institutional systems
transform into agents of their own futures, and
have a little fun in the process
I hope these attitudes and skills follow students throughout their lifetimes and shape ongoing approaches to pursuing professional and personal fulfillment.
about Becca (she / her)
Rebecca Lippman brings a decade of experience as a UCLA instructor and advisor at the Center for Scholarships and Scholarly Enrichment, where she coached undergrads through the process of identifying, applying for, and managing scholarships.
Students that Becca coached have received over $2.5 million in funding from numerous organizations including, McNair Scholars Program, the Barry Goldwater Foundation, Gates-Cambridge, Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars, the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the National Science Foundation, Fulbright, and the US Departments of Education and Defense.
Check out student testimonials.
As a former funding and graduate admissions consultant at accepted.com, Becca coached hundreds of applicants through admission to graduate studies in in medicine, law, applied STEM, and research in Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM.
Becca received a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, an MPhil at University of Cambridge and holds both an MA and CPhil in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Her developmental guidance for writing is ethically grounded in coursework taken as part of UCLA’s graduate writing pedagogy certificate program.
During her time at UCLA, Becca also taught college-level writing courses, gave lectures to multiple communities on and off campus, and supported students 1:1 as a student affairs advisor.
Becca is fluent in English (US), Spanish (Standard), and Portuguese (Brazil), and greatly enjoys supporting students from across the globe.
In her free time, Becca enjoys swimming, hiking, and reinventing educational forms of public service.
Born and raised on unceded Ohlone land, Becca also studied and taught as a guest on land originally stewarded by the Tongva people.
An educator who teaches students to engage critically with institutional systems, Becca is committed to the project of accessible education.
Please click on this link for a growing list of scholarships for people who identify as Indigenous, Native or Indian American.